WGNNews.org  Posted 11:25 A.M. : January 24, 2003

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has presented a new initiative titled “Charter to Reform the Arab Stand,” which it hopes will be put before the next Arab Summit, to be in held in March 2003 in Bahrain. The initiative encourages regional economic development and greater participation by the Arab people in the political process.

CHARTER FOR REFORM OF ARAB CONDITION

January 15, 2003__Consequently, and in the name of God Almighty, we have undertaken an oath to our people to work with steadfastness and determination to guarantee Arab sovereignty, safety and territorial integrity, and to boost our defense capabilities. We reconfirm our readiness to bear our responsibility to back the Palestinian Authority and the tenacity of its people in their occupied homeland while facing Israeli policies of brutality, occupation and siege.

For it is our enduring conviction, as the initiative indicates, that a just and lasting peace is impossible without Israeli withdrawal from all territories occupied in 1967, and without enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their legitimate, and internationally recognized, rights, which include the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.