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Non-aligned nations 'to confirm Palestinian refugee rights'
Published Friday 31/08/2012 (updated) 05/10/2012 16:32
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The final statement of the Non-Aligned Movement summit will confirm the rights of Palestinian refugees, President Mahmoud Abbas' diplomatic adviser said Friday.

The 120-member Non-Aligned Movement is expected to issue a 680-clause statement on Friday.

Majdi al-Khaldi said the closing statement would affirm the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, as outlined in UN resolution 194 and international law.

The statement will also recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and urge all countries which have not yet recognized Palestinian statehood to do so, al-Khaldi told Ma'an,

A special statement will be released by the 120-nation movement calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, he added.

President Mahmoud Abbas led a delegation representing Palestine at the summit, which is being held in Tehran. Abbas also met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the first time on Thursday.

Relations between Iran and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which Abbas heads, have been strained since the 1980s, when late President Yasser Arafat supported Iraq in its war against Iran. Iran's support for Abbas' rivals Hamas further estranged Tehran and the PLO.

No official statement has been released since Abbas' meeting with Ahmadinejad, but sources close to the president said the talks were positive.

Meanwhile, there were few signs diplomatic ties between Egypt and Iran would be restored at the summit. Egypt-Iran relations broke down after the Iranian revolution over Egypt's support for the overthrown Shah and over its peace agreement with Israel.

In Tehran, Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi urged Non-Aligned Movement members to back Syrians trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is Iran's closest Arab ally.

Mursi said solidarity with the Syrian people "against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy is an ethical duty" and a strategic necessity, prompting the Syrian delegation to leave the hall.

The NAM summit's final declaration is set to express deep concern about the violence in Syria and support for efforts by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to broker a resolution to the conflict, a delegate at the meeting told Reuters.

Reuters contributed to this report.
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1 ) Outlier / USA
31/08/2012 23:55
In short, get the heck out of our countries - you are big problem!

2 ) matt / usa
01/09/2012 01:38
just curious why do the palis get ALL OF JERUSALEM? they are only asking for half now

3 ) Tibi / Tubas
01/09/2012 06:31
the Non-Aligned Movement members must be a bunch of idiots, that like to hear themselves talk, since each of their statement's 680-clauses: 1- will probably amount to NO changes at all, much like 2- the clause "affirming the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes" will NOT lead to them returning, any more than 3- make a clause "affirming the Earth is flat can make it flat !!!

4 ) Palestinian refugees / for the NEXT
01/09/2012 07:17
300 YEARS

5 ) Wrollwell College / UK
01/09/2012 09:23
This right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, as outlined in UN resolution 194 and international law. Do they know there is just not enough space in Herzalia for them and their Uncle Shahid and Auntie Shahida, and no olive grove only the golf course.
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