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* Esta Declaración
ha sido difundida en árabe en la web 'al-Basrah' (www.albasrah.net) y ha sido traducida al castellano
por Omar Elmrabet, de Al Fanar Revista de Prensa Árabe.
Final Statement of the
Foundational National Conference Iraqi
CSCAweb (www.nodo50.org/csca),
17th May, 2004
Al-Basra.net (Iraq), 10th May, 2004.
Translation from the Spanish version by John Catalinotto, International
Action Center (New York), 15th May, 2004.
"[...]
We are making a call to all the Muslim experts representing different
doctrines, to the political parties, the nationalist personalities
and the political forces of all signs and tendencies to sign
a pact of commitment and to adopt a policy of understanding and
national work that unites us with one voice in a National Conference,
that unites all honorable citizens of our proud Iraq"
The document
that we present below is the Final Declaration approved within
the framework of the Iraqi National Conference that took place
in Baghdad the past May 8th , an initiative endorsed by a broad
representative body of Iraqi political and social organizations
-including those of lay Arabs and Kurds, nationalists, Ba'athists,
Communists as well as by social and religious organizations of
all beliefs and in which more than two thousand people took part.
This Declaration
expresses the commitment to a unified Iraqi position that reaffirms
the rejection of the occupation, support for the resistance and
the non-recognition of illegitimate institutions created by the
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), especially the Governing
Council (GC) and the body of police dependent on the U.S. military
command. In addition, the Declaration expresses the rejection
of the political process that the USA claims it will to carry
out beginning June 30 with the so-called "transference of
power" to a new body that still has not been defined regarding
the composition of its members, but that without a doubt will
be defined on U.S. interests basis in Iraq. On the contrary,
its organizers have affirmed that the June 30 date would be acceptable
solely if this would involve the true return of Iraq's sovereignty
and the end of the occupation in a process recognized and endorsed
by the United Nations.
Opposing the
US project and that of the CPA to impose a political framework
that legitimizes and consolidates the occupation based on the
colonial criteria of Iraq's fragmentation and its division by
sect and denomination, the Iraqi National Conference, as reflected
in this Declaration, represents the existence of a legitimate
national body that expresses itself though its integrated and
democratic commitment and by its determination to recover independence
in a united and sovereign Iraq [CSCAweb].
Final Statement of the Foundational
National Conference Iraqi
In the name of God, Merciful
and Compassionate
"Live up
to the pact of God,
all together, without dividing"
From the days of Antiquity,
Iraq has always been an objective of foreign forces because of
its strategic situation, the wealth of its natural and material
resources, the fertility of its soil and the singularity of its
people recognized by their tolerance and their creative force.
In Iraq the first civilization in the history of humanity arose
and the first code of legislation was written; here important
revolutions in different fields like agriculture, writing, science
and the arts occurred. Because of all this Iraq also suffered
innumerable attacks by different colonialist forces at different
times in its history and for different reasons. The latest episode
of these attacks is the U.S.-UK occupation [first begun with
the excuse that Iraq possessed] weapons of mass destruction and
threatened international peace and security, and [ later with
the pretext ] that it would release the Iraqi people from the
injustice, absolutism and the dictatorship of the old regime.
But these arguments have demonstrated
to be false and lacking credibility. In fact, the occupation
has destroyed the Iraqi State instead of [ previous ] Iraqi regime,
something that contradicts the slogans defended by the occupation
forces before they opened combat operations against international
will and without the consent of the Security Council of the United
Nations. The objective of the occupation of Iraq is to dominate
the country and its wealth as a tactic the U.S. administration
foresaw as part of its plans to force all the regimes of the
world in general, and the Arab and Islamic Nation in particular,
to submit to its will. All of this in the service of Zionism
and its entity established on the territories of occupied Palestine,
[Israel ], and after accusing the Arabs, the Muslims and their
legitimate governments of [committing or protecting ] terrorism,
governments who are struggling to obtain objectives whose accomplishment
will not be stopped despite the force, the tyranny and the terrorism
of the occupation forces.
What it is happening in our
beloved Iraq is transcendental, complex and dangerous. It is
being subjected to physical destruction by means of the murder
of its most outstanding nationalist, religious, political and
scientific personalities, at the same time that this is destroying
and pillaging the institutions of the State and of its innocent
citizens. To it one adds the lack of security and the instigation
of confrontations between the different denominational and ethnic
communities, with the purpose of eliminating or neutralizing
the Arab-Muslim character of Iraq.
By all that mentioned previously,
We are making a call to all the Muslim experts representing different
doctrines, to the political parties, the nationalist personalities
and the political forces of all signs and tendencies to sign
a pact of commitment and to adopt a policy of understanding and
national work that unites us with one voice in a National Conference,
that unites all honorable citizens of our proud Iraq. The invitation
is open to all positive contributions to carrying out this Conference,
based on the following Islamic, national and nationalistic pillars:
1. To fully reject the foreign
occupation of Iraq and to reject all its results and their economic,
political, social and cultural consequences, along with security,
as well as any other commitments that work against the interests
of the mother country and the nation. To reject participation
in any one of the political institutions [ created by the occupants
] while the occupation remains. To collaborate with our great
people in using all possible and legal means in the fight against
the occupation until the exit of the last colonialist soldier,
because it a legitimate and national duty.
2. To respect and to defend
the territorial unity of Iraq, its people and its sovereignty.
To reject all attempt at division based on the ethnic or denominational
differences, as well as all plans that put in danger their unity
in the present or in the future and independent of the nature
and the content of those plans.
3. To create a unified organization
of Muslim experts in Iraq to unify the work and orient Muslims
in order that they reject the occupation and they unite their
efforts to end the colonialist presence.
4. To consider [Islamic law]
Sharia as basic legislative source among [other] legislative
sources.
5. To appeal and to work for
peaceful alternatives in the exercise of the power, and so that
it is given back to its legitimate and only source, the Iraqi
people, by methods that can reflect the popular will, putting
in its leadership an elected national front that dispenses justice
and equality for all, candidates and voters.
6. To reject dictatorship in
all its forms, past, present and future. To respect freedom of
expression of each citizen to express their opinions, whatever
professional or political groups they belong to. To reject all
type of use of violence to express [political] positions or
opinions. To affirm the spirit of tolerance and to adopt dialogue
as the only means to bridge the points of view and overcome conflicts,
no matter what their nature and contents are.
7. Iraq is a part of the Arab
Nation. For that reason, it is necessary to reaffirm and to defend
the Islamic and Arab identity of Iraq, as well as the connections
between its territories, its people, its History and its civilization
to the Arab-Islamic Nation.
8. To reject all the laws emitted
for any circumstances while the occupation remains. To reject
the exploitation of the natural, human and material resources
of Iraq before the election of a national power that represents
the people has taken place. Any attitude that contradicts this
statement will be considered an illegal act that must be condemned
by the legal national power.
9. To prosecute and to consider
as treason to the State of Iraq any act, attitude or call that
tries to implant the division and fitna [ split of the Islamic
community ] between the Iraqi people by means of the ethnic,
doctrinales or religious differences. And to include this principle
in a new Constitution.
10. The Palestinian cause
is the central cause of Muslims and Arabs. It is necessary to
support the right of the Palestinian people to free their territories
and to establish their independent State with its capital in
Jerusalem. That is the duty of all Arab-Muslims.
11. To affirm and to consolidate
loyalty to the country and to prohibit loyalty to any other entity,
whatever are the arguments and whatever the entity. To defend
the interests and the objectives of the country before those
of any secondary interests, despite the importance these have
for some people.
12. To work so that the national
Armed Forces recover their role. To dissolve to all the military
services founded up to now [by the occupiers] and to reject the
creation of other bodies [of security] whatever the argument.
13. To reaffirm the responsibility
of the countries involved in the occupation [ of Iraq ], above
all regarding the material and moral damage that has been and
continues to be inflicted on the Iraqi people by means of the
war and the occupation.
14. To commit themselves to
work to establish a State based on Law in which all citizens
are equal without distinction of sex or race; a State able to
construct a country that is strong, politically, economically
and socially, through legal constitutional institutions.
The Preparatory Committee
of the Founding Iraqi National Conference
Baghdad, 10 of May of 2004
Enlaces relacionados / Related links:
Celebrada
en Bagdad la Conferencia Nacional Iraquí contra la Ocupación
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