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The Vienna based Friends of Humanity International
(Human Rights Organisation) appealed Tuesday to the European
Union to retract its policy imposing blockade and starvation on
Palestinian people.
In an open letter to the Presidency of the Council of the
European Union Federal Chancellor of Austria Mr Wolfgang Schüssel,
Friends of Humanity International said the siege of a people
under occupation is a grave unprecedented incident and deviation
from the established human, moral and juristic paradigms.
The letter reads:
Friends of Humanity International observes with concern the
developments associated with the punitive measures imposed by the
European Union States on the Palestinian party following the
results of the free elections that took place last January on the
Palestinian lands.
Friends of Humanity is stunned by such excessive measure which
are taken at a time the Palestinian people continue to suffer
from the oppression of occupation, the confiscation of their
lands and deprivation of their basic rights.
Instead of placing the Palestinian people under boycott and
sanction, the European Union should have encouraged the
proceeding of the elections on the Palestinian lands, thus
contribute to laying the foundation for just social and economic
norms and criteria.
The European Union should have taken into consideration the
responsibilities entrusted to its member states towards
preventing the aggravation of the Palestinian people's suffering.
The Union was expected to stand by the Palestinian people and
support their endeavor to regain their rights and to lead a
decent and secure living on their homeland, just as the case for
the other peoples of the world.
It would have been more appropriate for the States of the
European Union to have considered a certain action to oblige the
Israeli Government to eradicate the discriminative segregation
wall which isolates the Palestinian residential areas, an
aggression which ought not be tolerated or permitted in the
twenty first century.
It is a painful fact for justice defenders and seekers that this
internationally condemned wall still stands erect on the
Palestinian land, that more walls are being inflicted, under
whatsoever pretexts, on the Palestinian citizens and their
medical and educations institutions, ranging from the economic
sanction to the living punitive measures and political isolation.
Founded on moral base, juristic perspective as well as human
concern, Friends of Humanity International assert that the
imposition of sanction and punition on the Palestinian people,
and tightening the grip on the already deteriorating living
opportunities available to the Palestinian citizens, can in no
way stand for justice and is far from being the right way applied
to mange relationships among the world's peoples.
The imposition of sanctions on a people under occupation
represents a grave unprecedented event ever witnessed on the
arena of the international relations, and a regrettable deviation
from the human and moral norms and the principles of human
rights.
Friends of Humanity express its astonishment at the excuses being
pronounced in justification of this policy, and confirm that such
excuses are not only irrelevant but also contradictory and
ungrounded.
Imposition of drastic living pressures and constriction on the
chances of obtaining food and medication is not the logic means
to prompt any party whatsoever to adopt stands that are
consistent with the convictions and norms.
In this respect, Friends of Humanity would stress the fact that
the donations provided by the Europeans are part of their vowed
commitments. Retraction of any of these commitments is regarded
as a systematic intentional damage inflicted on the Palestinian
people at a time such commitments pose a duty dictated by the
human, moral and historical responsibility towards the
Palestinian People, particularly on the part of the European
countries and the United States of America that have contributed
to a vast extent to the rise and continuity of the agony of the
Palestinians.
Friends of Humanity International warn against using development
projects for political aims or manipulating them in biased
policies. The Organisation assert that such attitude involves a
conflict to the spirit of the developmental responsibility
undertaken by the industrial states, and is considered a
violation of the values underpinning the policies relating to
development cooperation.
Friends of Humanity International express its absolute rejection
of the policy of siege, sanction and famishment which has been
recently imposed on the Palestinian people, and hold all
concerned parties fully responsible for the harm sustained by the
Palestinian citizens as a result of such policy which would
eventually lead to the demolition of the Palestinians' economic
infrastructure.
Friends of Humanity demands immediate retraction of such grave
biased policies, by way of invalidating all forms of boycott and
sanction. Moreover, the Organisation calls the European Union to
participate in vitalizing and reviving the Palestinian economy,
and to rescue it from the Israeli occupation domination.
VIENNA, June 6, 2006 (WAFA)- The Vienna based Friends
of Humanity International (Human Rights Organisation) appealed
Tuesday to the European Union to retract its policy imposing
blockade and starvation on Palestinian people.
In an open letter to the Presidency of the Council of the
European Union Federal Chancellor of Austria Mr Wolfgang Schüssel,
Friends of Humanity International said the siege of a people
under occupation is a grave unprecedented incident and deviation
from the established human, moral and juristic paradigms.
The letter reads:
Friends of Humanity International observes with concern the
developments associated with the punitive measures imposed by the
European Union States on the Palestinian party following the
results of the free elections that took place last January on the
Palestinian lands.
Friends of Humanity is stunned by such excessive measure which
are taken at a time the Palestinian people continue to suffer
from the oppression of occupation, the confiscation of their
lands and deprivation of their basic rights.
Instead of placing the Palestinian people under boycott and
sanction, the European Union should have encouraged the
proceeding of the elections on the Palestinian lands, thus
contribute to laying the foundation for just social and economic
norms and criteria.
The European Union should have taken into consideration the
responsibilities entrusted to its member states towards
preventing the aggravation of the Palestinian people's suffering.
The Union was expected to stand by the Palestinian people and
support their endeavor to regain their rights and to lead a
decent and secure living on their homeland, just as the case for
the other peoples of the world.
It would have been more appropriate for the States of the
European Union to have considered a certain action to oblige the
Israeli Government to eradicate the discriminative segregation
wall which isolates the Palestinian residential areas, an
aggression which ought not be tolerated or permitted in the
twenty first century.
It is a painful fact for justice defenders and seekers that this
internationally condemned wall still stands erect on the
Palestinian land, that more walls are being inflicted, under
whatsoever pretexts, on the Palestinian citizens and their
medical and educations institutions, ranging from the economic
sanction to the living punitive measures and political isolation.
Founded on moral base, juristic perspective as well as human
concern, Friends of Humanity International assert that the
imposition of sanction and punition on the Palestinian people,
and tightening the grip on the already deteriorating living
opportunities available to the Palestinian citizens, can in no
way stand for justice and is far from being the right way applied
to mange relationships among the world's peoples.
The imposition of sanctions on a people under occupation
represents a grave unprecedented event ever witnessed on the
arena of the international relations, and a regrettable deviation
from the human and moral norms and the principles of human
rights.
Friends of Humanity express its astonishment at the excuses being
pronounced in justification of this policy, and confirm that such
excuses are not only irrelevant but also contradictory and
ungrounded.
Imposition of drastic living pressures and constriction on the
chances of obtaining food and medication is not the logic means
to prompt any party whatsoever to adopt stands that are
consistent with the convictions and norms.
In this respect, Friends of Humanity would stress the fact that
the donations provided by the Europeans are part of their vowed
commitments. Retraction of any of these commitments is regarded
as a systematic intentional damage inflicted on the Palestinian
people at a time such commitments pose a duty dictated by the
human, moral and historical responsibility towards the
Palestinian People, particularly on the part of the European
countries and the United States of America that have contributed
to a vast extent to the rise and continuity of the agony of the
Palestinians.
Friends of Humanity International warn against using development
projects for political aims or manipulating them in biased
policies. The Organisation assert that such attitude involves a
conflict to the spirit of the developmental responsibility
undertaken by the industrial states, and is considered a
violation of the values underpinning the policies relating to
development cooperation.
Friends of Humanity International express its absolute rejection
of the policy of siege, sanction and famishment which has been
recently imposed on the Palestinian people, and hold all
concerned parties fully responsible for the harm sustained by the
Palestinian citizens as a result of such policy which would
eventually lead to the demolition of the Palestinians' economic
infrastructure.
Friends of Humanity demands immediate retraction of such grave
biased policies, by way of invalidating all forms of boycott and
sanction. Moreover, the Organisation calls the European Union to
participate in vitalizing and reviving the Palestinian economy,
and to rescue it from the Israeli occupation domination.
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