With the colonial regime in Israel expanding its areas by inhabiting more Arab lands, the worldwide neighborhood has actually been advised to avoid Israel’s planned annexation of the West Bank, and help realize the independence of the Palestinian state, based on the borders drawn in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The call was voiced by the OIC Executive Committee at the conclusion of its Amazing Open-Ended Ministerial Meeting, held practically on June 10, 2020, some 20 days before Israel is scheduled to implement its planned annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, starting July 1.
The OIC has actually called on the international neighborhood to take steps against the Israeli profession and its colonial practices that jeopardize the principles of the rule-based worldwide order, the company of Muslim majority nations stated in a 15- point resolution, which was adopted at the conference that was also gone to by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.
The OIC has actually also asked the worldwide neighborhood to take the essential legal countermeasures, including refraining from transactions with any Israeli government that endorses an annexation program, imposing financial and political sanctions on Israel, and boycotting the Israeli colonial system, and illegal Israeli settlements and their products.
In addition, the OIC has urged its members to take the required political, legal, and financial measures to deal with the Israeli risk to the occupied Palestinian area.
The resolution also calls on all states to push the Israeli occupation authorities to ensure the release of Palestinian prisoners, specifically the sick, the elderly, children, and ladies, and to safeguard them from the risk of COVID-19 infection.
Minister Retno Marsudi, in her remarks, highlighted the truth that while the world is fighting versus COVID-19, Palestine is fighting even harder problems, especially the looming annexation in the middle of the pandemic.
” It (the planned addition) shakes the extremely structure of Palestine as a country and threatens peace and stability in the area and beyond,” she warned.
While everybody is focusing on worldwide efforts to eliminate the lethal virus, Israel has continued on its path of addition, she stated.
” The existing ‘de-facto’ annexation is inappropriate. The prepared ‘formal’ annexation is a lot more unacceptable, as it gravely breaches worldwide law and different UN resolutions; weakens worldwide specifications and agreement on the Concern of Palestine, consisting of the two-state solution; sets back years of diplomatic efforts and the possibility of peace; and, it will even eliminate our dream to see an independent and sovereign state of Palestine,” she noted.
She called for unity amongst the OIC member countries and huge mobilization to oppose the annexation strategy.
” If Israel finally continues with the official annexation, OIC nations with diplomatic relations with Israel should take diplomatic procedures, in-line with numerous OIC resolutions,” she stated.
Besides, the OIC must end up being the engine for cumulative action at numerous global online forums, including at the UNGA and the UNSC, by advising concrete procedures to address the annexation and starting a resolution to turn down the strategy, she said.
At the Human Being Rights Council, the OIC needs to voice issues over the human rights crisis caused by the addition, she included. The OIC should likewise start to lobby for other groupings and other global companies, she continued.
” On my part, I have actually corresponded to Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Motion, G-77, OIC nations, European Union, and all members of the UN Security Council, requesting their assistance to turn down Israel’s strategy,” Retno Marsudi mentioned.
Israel’s persistence on continuing on the course of annexation can not be endured. As soon as once again, let us work together as one to activate support for Palestine and to stop Israel’s despicable annexation strategy,” the minister stated.
In the meantime, Indonesia’s largest Muslim company, the Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU) has actually highly condemned Israel’s addition plan.
” Israel must stop all actions that will directly impact security and get worse world peace,” Helmy Faishal Zaini, secretary general of the PBNU, stated in a statement to ANTARA just recently.
He lauded and supported the policy, ideas, and the decision made by the Government of Indonesia in opposing Israel’s annexation.
According to him, Indonesia has actually played an essential role in pushing this concern at global forums in order to produce peace in the world.
Aziz Syamsuddin, Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian Legislature (DPR), has actually likewise denounced Israel’s prepared addition of the West Bank, specifying it can not be justified at all.
” Indonesia supports the Palestinian people in their fight for their rights to develop a sovereign state,” he said.
Israel’s plan to annex a third of the Palestinian areas in the West Bank is unlawful because it is against the UN Security Council resolutions and worldwide laws, he discussed.
Any unilateral move that violates worldwide contracts and norms must be stopped instantly, the Golkar Party politician said.
The DPR fully supports the steps taken by Indonesia, which is presently serving as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, to encourage the worldwide community to work together to promote dedications to worldwide law and arrangements that have been mutually concurred upon.
” Indonesia does not want to be hostile to any country, but we can not justify oppression in any form against a country” Aziz included.
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