"The Honorable Abdou Salam Diallo, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to send this message to your esteemed Committee on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. I commend your untiring efforts to defend the just Palestinian cause and sensitize the Member States of the United Nations to the different aspects involved in this issue and also to the role they are expected to play to bring just, lasting peace to the Middle East, on the basis of international legitimacy.
In this regard, I should like to reiterate the Kingdom of Morocco’s full and constant support for the historical, legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, especially the right to establish their independent state on their liberated territory, with East Jerusalem as its capital – a state living side by side with Israel, in peace and security, in keeping with international legitimacy and in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and the International Quartet’s Roadmap.
However, in spite of international efforts to revive the peace process, and notwithstanding the flexibility shown by the Palestinians and the Arab side as well as their positive response to the various initiatives undertaken, these efforts have been constantly hampered by the Israeli government’s persistent policy of settlement building, Judaization and the confiscation of land and property. Such an attitude undermines all efforts to achieve a final solution to this conflict and prevents the success of the negotiations which have resumed between the Palestinians and the Israelis, under the auspices of the United States.
In this respect, Morocco commends the U.S. Administration’s praiseworthy efforts, which have led to a resumption of Palestinian - Israeli negotiations, with a specific timeframe for the achievement of tangible results that can rekindle hopes of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace which guarantees the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights.
As Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, and consistent with Arab and Islamic commitments, I have been calling on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities and keep up its action to enable the Palestinian people to fulfill their legitimate aspirations. I have also underscored the great risks involved in Israel's continuing aggressive schemes to alter the legal, demographic and religious status of the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif and to undermine its cultural identity.
In this respect, I wish to call, once again, on the influential international powers to compel Israel to stop all the violations it perpetrates in the occupied Palestinian territories, and to abide by the provisions of international legitimacy so that Al-Quds may remain a symbol of coexistence and peace between the monotheistic religions.
Consistent with our unwavering stance in support of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, I have keenly sought to ensure that the Bayt Mal Al Quds Al Sharif Agency continues to carry out concrete projects in various social, educational, health and housing sectors. The aim is to help our brothers the inhabitants of Al-Quds to remain steadfast as they confront all attempts designed to undermine and distort the religious and cultural features of the holy city.
I should like to take this opportunity to express my constant, unwavering support for the demands of the Palestinian National Authority under the leadership of my brother His Excellency President Mahmoud Abbas. I call on all our Palestinian brothers to work hand in hand in order to preserve national unity so that a fully sovereign, independent Palestinian State may be created.
To conclude, I wish to stress that the two-state solution remains the comprehensive, just and lasting solution which is both realistic and feasible: two states living side by side in peace, security and stability."