ISLAMIC NATION OF PALESTINE
MINISTRY
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Jerusalén,
yawm al-'ahad, Jumada t-Tania 1444
Mr Secretary General:
I have been instructed
by His Excellency Prince Ali Muhammad bin Faisal Al-Saud, Supreme Leader of the
Islamic Nation of Palestine, and Custodian of the Holy Places in Jerusalem, who
took over de facto the government headed by Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, who was
dismissed for violating Article 35 in fine of the Constitution of the defunct
State of Palestine, and Articles 14 to 18 of the Palestinian National Charter.
The Ministry under my
responsibility responds to the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29
November 2012, in the following terms:
The Islamic Nation of
Palestine, which for all legal purposes is the new name of the defunct State of
Palestine, and which by the confession of the General Assembly itself 132
member countries of the United Nations recognise Palestine as a State, which
means inter alia that of the 192 member countries of the UN only 60 do not
recognise Palestine.
It is the case that
this Resolution dated 29 November 2012, violates the provisions of Article 4 of
the Charter of the United Nations which states:
"Membership in the
United Nations shall be open to all other peace-loving States which accept the
obligations contained in the present Charter and which in the judgment of the
Organization are able and willing to carry out these obligations.
The admission of such
States to membership in the United Nations shall be effected by decision of the
General Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council. "
The point, Mr.
Secretary General, is that the Security Council has no power under the Charter
itself to issue such "Recommendations", which can be read in Chapters
VI, VII, VIII; and XII of the Charter.
And even less can one
accept the condition of "OBSERVER STATE", when such a figure does not
exist in the Charter, being therefore an irritating and spurious condition,
which our Islamic Nation of Palestine does not accept, and therefore we leave
without effect the request dated 23 September 2011, because the General
Assembly of the United Nations has violated the Charter to our detriment.
Now, the Islamic State
of Palestine does not accept the interference of the United Nations in its
actions concerning the historical conflict that has been going on since 1947,
when the United Nations, acting contrary to international law, and without our
consent, issued Resolution 181, surprising in their good faith the main
interested parties, the owners of the territory, that is, the Palestinian
people.
We are not members of
the United Nations, we will welcome any gesture of goodwill from the States
that recognise us as a Nation so that we can resolve the only dispute we have,
and which has been recognised by the content of the following conclusions of
the United Nations Report A/HRC/49/87, signed by the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,
Michael Lynk, dated 12 August 2022, which states:
“54. Secondly, this
system of foreign rule has been established with the intention of maintaining
the domination of one racial, national or ethnic group over another. Israeli
political leaders, both past and present, have repeatedly stated that they
intend to maintain control over all occupied territory in order to expand the
extent of present and future Jewish settlements, while keeping Palestinians
locked in "population reserves". There are two sides to this coin: plans
for more Jewish settlers and larger Jewish settlements over a larger occupied
area cannot be realised without the expropriation of more Palestinian land and
harsher and more complex methods of population control in the face of
inevitable resistance. Under this system, the freedoms of one group are
inextricably linked to the subjugation of the other.
55. Thirdly, the
imposition of this system of institutionalised discrimination intended to exert
permanent domination has been based on the regular practice of cruel and
inhuman acts, arbitrary and extrajudicial executions, torture, the denial of
fundamental human rights, a fundamentally flawed military court system and lack
of due process, arbitrary detention and collective punishment. The repetition
of these acts over long periods and their endorsement by the Knesset and the
Israeli judicial system indicate that they are not the result of random and
isolated acts, but are part and parcel of Israel's system of governance.
56. This is apartheid.
It does not have some of the characteristics of Southern Africa; in particular,
much of what has been called "petit apartheid" (forms of
discrimination not covered by legislation) is not present. On the other hand,
there are ruthless elements in the "separation" imposed by the
Israeli administration in the OPT that were not used in Southern Africa, such
as segregated roads, high walls and numerous checkpoints, the encirclement of
the population, missile and tank bomb attacks on the civilian population, and
the transfer of responsibility for the social welfare of Palestinians to the
international community. Before the wide-open eyes of the international
community, Israel has imposed on Palestine the reality of apartheid in a world
that has left apartheid behind.” (…)
58. The Special
Rapporteur recommends that the international community accept and endorse the
findings of Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organizations
that Israel practises apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and
beyond. The international community should: (a) Establish a diplomatic
accountability package to bring a complete end to the Israeli occupation and
its practice of apartheid in the Palestinian Territory; (b) Support any
referral or application to the International Criminal Court or the
International Court of Justice with regard to the legal consequences of the
practice of apartheid in the OPT.
59. The Special
Rapporteur recommends that the United Nations re-establish the Special
Committee on Apartheid to investigate any and all practices of systematic
discrimination and oppression alleged to amount to apartheid anywhere in the
world, including the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
The territory and other geographical spaces of the
Islamic Nation of Palestine are those that corresponded to the territory of
Palestine before the transformation that occurred as a product of the invading
force that emerged in the Partition Plan for Palestine with the UN proposal to
divide the British Mandate in our territory since time immemorial, contained in
Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947.
In this vein, our Nation will denounce
before the International Community the dispossession of our territory by the
Kingdom of Great Britain with the acquiescence of the United Nations.
Our Nation does not recognise Resolution
181 of 29 November 1947, and will work with international diplomacy to remove
from our territory the Nation that has been illegitimately occupying our
territory.
Our capital is the city of Jerusalem, and
our borders are located to the North with Lebanon and Syria, to the South with
Egypt, to the East with Jordan and to the West with the Mediterranean Sea and
Egypt, which we now claim and declare as such, And the surface area of our
territory is approximately 28,165 square kilometres.
Thus, Mr. Secretary General, our Islamic
Nation of Palestine is within the formulas of dialogue and diplomacy to resolve
its internal affairs, which, not being part of the United Nations, we do not
accept the interference of the United Nations, since we have 132 States that
are members of the United Nations with whom we can sit at any table to try to
resolve our differences, which were initiated by the United Nations with whom
we can sit at any table to try to resolve our differences, which began on
November 29, 1947, when the publication of Resolution 181 of the General
Assembly led to the invasion of our territory, which belongs since time inmemorial.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Nation of
Palestine, Latifa Arafat, cordially greets the Secretary General of the United
Nations, Mr. Antonio Guterres, with the qualifications of his highest esteem
and great consideration.
Latifa Arafat
Minister
