We
would like to inform you that upon invitation of the Palestinian
Committee for Peace and Solidarity and of the Peace Committee in
Israel, a delegation of Peace Committees from Cyprus(CPC),Turkey(PA)
and Greeece (EEDYE), all members of the WPC, will visit Palestine
and Israel from August 8-13th, 2014.
The
solidarity mission of the Peace Committees of the Eastern
Mediterranean, under the auspices of the WPC, will meet in Palestine
with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), with the PLO and all
political parties of Palestine, along with social movements and
organisations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The
delegation will be guided by the positions and principles of the
WPC, which denounced and condemned the atrocities of the Israeli army
against the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip for one month.
The
aim of the mission is to convey the full-hearted solidarity and
support to the suffering Palestinian people, to meet and exchange
views and information on how to strengthen the solidarity movement in
the world, unmasking at the same time the hypocrisy of many
governments who equate the victim with the aggressor, providing
direct or indirect support to the occupation of Palestine by the
Israeli regime.
The
delegation will meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa with Peace forces and
political parties of Israel, who stood up firmly against the
aggression of the Israeli army in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
The
WPC mission to Palestine and Israel will underline the principle
positions for the establishment of an independent State of Palestine
within the borders of 4th June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its
capital, the demand for the release of all Palestinian political
prisoners from Israeli jails and the right for the return of the
Palestinian Refuggees,according to the relvant UN resolutions.
The
delegation will be composed by Christos Kourtellaris, General
Secretary of the Cyprus Peace Council (CPC), Zuhal Okuyan, President
of ther Peace Association (PA) of Turkey and Iraklis Tsavdaridis,
member of the Secretariat of the Greek Peace Committee (EEDYE) and
Excutive Secretary of WPC.
Athens,
7th August 2014
