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Summit of Peacemakers - Sharm el-Sheikh, March 13, 1996 - Final Statement
Sharm el-Sheikh, March 13,
1996
Issued by Co-Chairmen, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and
US President Bill Clinton:
The Summit of Peacemakers has just concluded. This meeting
took place at a time when the peace process confronts serious
threats. The summit had three fundamental objectives: to enhance the
peace process, to promote security and to combat terror.
Accordingly, the participants here today:
- Express their full support for the Middle East peace process
and their determination that this process continue in order to
accomplish a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region.
- Affirm their determination to promote security and stability
and to prevent the enemies of peace from achieving their ultimate
objective of destroying the real opportunity for peace in the
Middle East.
- Reemphasize their strong condemnation of all acts of terror in
all its abhorrent forms, whatever its motivation and whoever its
perpetrator, including recent terrorist attacks in Israel,
consider them alien to the moral and spiritual values shared by
all the peoples of the region and reaffirm their intention to
stand staunchly against all such acts and to urge all governments
to join them in this condemnation and opposition.
To that end, we decided:
- To support the Israel-Palestinian agreement, the continuation
of the negotiating process, and to politically and economically
reinforce it, to enhance the security situation for both, with
special attention to the current and pressing economic needs of
the Palestinians.
- To support continuation of the negotiation process in order to
achieve a comprehensive settlement.
- To work together to promote security and stability in the
region by developing effective and practical means of cooperation
and further assistance.
- To promote coordination of efforts to stop acts of terror on
bilateral, regional and international levels; ensuring instigators
of such acts are brought to justice; supporting efforts by all
parties to prevent their territories from being used for terrorist
purposes; and preventing terrorist organizations from engaging in
recruitment, supplying arms, or fund raising.
- To exert maximum efforts to identify and determine the sources
of financing for these groups and to cooperate in cutting them
off, and by providing training, equipment and other forms of
support to those taking steps against groups using violence and
terror to undermine peace, security or stability.
- To form a working group, open to all summit participants, to
prepare recommendations on how best to implement the decisions
contained in this statement, through ongoing work, and to report
to the participants within thirty days.
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