ALBA-TCP released a statement greeting the move by the two organizations, which availed themselves of the Joint Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit to “address the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people,” held on November 11 in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

According to the communiqué, the alliance “hails that two such influential and relevant organizations in the Muslim world have advocated the Palestinian cause, considering it common to all Muslim peoples and denouncing the atrocities committed by the Israeli occupying power, in open violation of international law.”

ALBA_TCP voiced its all-out solidarity with the Palestinian people, “subject to a process of continued genocide, which seeks to deny their right to exist.”

The Latin American and Caribbean mechanism supported the resolution of the Joint Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, whose resulting document, it said, “unequivocally refers to the attacks and crimes against humanity committed by the occupying power.”

The release vindicated all necessary actions to end war and violence, in order to guarantee not only the interests of the Muslim world, but also to protect world peace and stability.

The Bolivarian Alliance sees the Palestinian cause as its own, an stands in full coincidence with the resolution of this Joint Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, joining the “global demand to end this growing spiral of genocide against the Palestinian people.”

Likewise, it stands for all legal and political initiatives leading to a lasting and complete peace, based on the creation of two States, which would allow the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination, within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital and the return of displaced persons, it added.

The Bolivarian Alliance demanded that the occupying power be held accountable for its crimes after more than 75 years of aggression.

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