[WCUSP] RELIEF AND HAPPINESS FOR THE RELEASE OF JOHNSTON

[yvonne simmons]

--- lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
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> From: "lieve snellings" <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:48:46 +0200
> Subject: [womeninblack] RELIEF AND HAPPINESS FOR THE
> RELEASE OF JOHNSTON
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: MORGANTINI Luisa 
> 
> 
> PRESS RELEASE 
> 
> by
> 
> LUISA MORGANTINI
> 
> Vice President of the European Parliament 
> 
> (GUE/NGL)
> 
> 
> 
> RELIEF AND HAPPINESS FOR THE RELEASE OF JOHNSTON: 
> 
> EU has to put pressure FOR SHALIT RELEASE AND THE
> EXCHANGE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS 
> 
> Brussels 4 July 2007
> 
> "It's really a big relief and happiness the release
> of BBC journalist Alan Johnston. 
> 
> I really hope that this event won't be seen as a
> political success only of one of the parties
> concerned; on the contrary it should be an incentive
> for the immediate resumption of the dialogue between
> Hamas and Fatah, for the wellbeing and the unity of
> Palestinian Territory and People", declared Luisa
> Morgantini, Vice President of the European
> Parliament, commenting last night's release of BBC
> reporter Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Gaza Strip by
> an extremist Palestinian militant group 114 days
> ago.    
> 
> "I wish that Hamas Representatives' declarations
> stating that kidnapping of journalists in Gaza Strip
> belongs to the past and affirming the willingness to
> "ensure full freedom of expression for all" are
> concrete. I also hope that the order that apparently
> reigns in Gaza does not result in restriction of
> freedom and fundamental rights such as the right of
> free expression and association, women rights and
> the right to participate in the political life of
> the country, regardless of ideological or religious
> beliefs. The unity of territory and people means
> also one authority, in these sense I really hope
> that the new situation in Gaza would be changed  not
> through repression but  through national dialogue. 
> 
> "After Alan Johnston's liberation, we hope that the
> soldier Gilad Shalit will be released as well on the
> basis of an exchange with Palestinian political
> prisoners. Currently they are about 11.000 - among
> them, ministers and 45 elected deputies, but also
> women, sick people and children - they have been
> locked in Israeli jails often in an arbitrary way,
> without a just trial, they have been unlawfully
> kidnapped and many of them are tortured. If we want
> to  achieve this objective, it is  necessary to put
> pressure on the Israeli Government and not only on
> Hamas. Unfortunately the move of Israeli government
> to say it will release only 250 Fatah political
> prisoner is part of the old policy of "divide et
> impera", 
> 
>  "The European Union could play a fundamental role,
> not dividing but, on the contrary, providing
> incentives for the intra-Palestinian dialogue,
> restoring direct aid also in the Gaza Strip, where,
> as usual, civil society is paying the prize of the
> political and economic crisis. 
> 
> Re-opening Rafah crossing is a political and moral
> imperative in order to tackle the dramatic situation
> of thousand of Palestinians who are in tragic
> conditions in Al Arish, among them many badly ill
> people. The re-opening of Gaza Strip to
> import-export activities and to free circulation of
> goods and people is equally important. The lack of
> free circulation strikes also the West Bank, where
> more than 500 check points and the wall prevent
> Palestinians working, having commercial exchanges
> and even reaching hospitals.          
> 
>  "The Quartet must relaunch negotiations. President
> Mahmoud Abbas and PLO are the interlocutors
> recognized by everyone, including by Hamas, to
> negotiate. I hope that the emergency Government
> could play its role and pave the way for new
> elections in which all Palestinian political forces
> could participate. I also wish that the
> International Community would never again repeat the
> same mistake, not recognizing a freely elected
> Government. 
> 
> Peace is crucial for both, Palestinians and
> Israelis. 
> 
> Of course rockets bombardment hitting civil
> population in Sderot has to be stopped, but it is
> necessary as well that the Israeli Government
> immediately puts an end to the violations of the
> international legality, by killing Palestinian
> civilians in the West Bank and in Gaza. It must  
> concretely show its commitment for peace  by ending
> the occupation  beginning by accepting the Arab
> Initiative and respecting the UN resolutions". 
> 
>  
> 
> Per info Luisa Morgantini 00972 54 72 71 742 o 0039
> 348 39 21 465 o Francesca Cutarelli 0039 340 56 49
> 335
> 
>  
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