Six-Point Program
(December 4, 1977)
In the wake of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's
visit to Israel,
the factions of the Palestinian Resistance Movement decided to
promote an answer to this step. On this basis, they met and issued
the following document:
We, all factions of the PLO,
announce the following:
FIRST-. We call for the formation of a "Steadfastness
and Confrontation Front" composed of Libya, Algeria, Iraq,
Democratic Yemen, Syria and the PLO, to oppose all confrontationist solutions planned by imperialism,
Zionism and their Arab tools.
SECOND: We fully condemn any Arab party in the Tripoli
Summit which rejects the formation of this Front, and we announce this.
THIRD: We reaffirm our rejection of Security Council
resolutions 242 and 338.
FOURTH: We reaffirm our rejection of all international
conferences based on these two resolutions, including the Geneva Conference.
FIFTH: To strive for the realization of the Palestinian
people's rights to return and self-determination within the context
of an independent Palestinian national state on any part of Palestinian
land, without reconciliation, recognition or negotiations, as an interim
aim of the Palestinian Revolution.
SIXTH: To apply the measures related to the political
boycott of the Sadat regime.
In the name of all the factions, we ratify this unificatory
document.
c). In asserting the importance of the relationship
of struggle and nationalism between Syria and the Palestinians. The
Syrian Arab Republic and the PLO announce the formation of a unified
front to face the Zionist enemy and combat the imperialist plot with
all its parties and to thwart all attempts at capitulation. The Democratic
and Popular Republic of Algeria, the Socialist People's Libyan Arab
Jamahirnyah and the PDRY (People'.s Democratic Republic of Yemen -South
Yemen) have decided to join this front, making it the nucleus a plan-Arab
front for steadfastness and combat which will he open to other Arab
countries to join.
10. Members of the pan-Arab front consider any aggression
against any one member as an aggression against all members.
The conference pledges to the Arab nation that it
will continue the march of struggle, steadfastness, combat and adherence
to the objectives of the Arab struggle. The conference also expresses
its deep faith and absolute confidence that the Arab nation, which has
staged revolutions, overcome difficulties and defeated plots during
its long history of struggle-a struggle which abounds with heroism is
today capable of replying with force to those who have harmed its dignity,
squandered its rights, split its solidarity and departed from the principles
of its struggle. It is confident of its own capabilities in liberation,
progress and victory, thanks to God.
The conference records with satisfaction the national
Palestinian unity within the framework of the PLO.
Sources: Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, ed The
Israel-Arab Reader, (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2001) |