GAZA (PIC)– Ismail Haneyya the PA premier-designate on Saturday tabled his government’s policy program at a special session of the PLC during which he affirmed the Palestinian people’s right to resist occupation of their lands.
Haneyya called on the forthcoming Arab summit in Riyadh Saudi Arabia to break the siege imposed on the Palestinian people.
He said that the new unity government would preserve the Palestinian people’s higher interests and its gains. The government would also aspire to realize the people’s national goals as endorsed by national councils the PA bylaws national harmony document and Arab summit resolutions.
The premier-designate affirmed that his government would respect the international resolutions and agreements signed by the PLO.
He hailed the Makkah agreement that spared Palestinian blood and furnished the way before formation of his unity government.
Haneyya also praised the Arab countries and Iran for their role in achieving Palestinian national conciliation.
He also underlined that his government would seek an end to occupation and recognition of the Palestinian people’s right of self-determination.
Haneyya said that his government would work alongside the Arabs to regain legitimate rights and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 occupied lands and would demand the return of refugees according to the UN resolution 194.
He finally read the names of the ministers of the unity government and asked for a confidence vote.
For his part PA chief Mahmoud Abbas earlier told the same session that he was committed to developing the PLO and reactivating its various institutions.
He stressed that liberating Jerusalem was a sublime goal for all Palestinians and that the unity government would exert all efforts possible to liberate Palestinian captives from occupation jails.
Abbas said that the Palestinian leadership would attempt to implement the Arab initiative in cooperation with the concerned international parties especially the quartet committee in a bid to achieve US president George Bush’s vision of a two-state solution and establishment of a lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
