(Responding to Challenges of the 21st Century: Establishment of Global Peace, Justice, Stability and Security)
ISTANBUL–REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
28-29 RABI AWAL 1436H
21 -22 JANUARY 2015
We, Speakers, Heads and Members of Delegations of the PUIC Member Parliaments participating in the proceedings of the 10th Session of the PUIC Conference held in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey on 28-29 Rabi Awal 1436 H corresponding to 21- 22January 2015 -under the motto: "Responding to Challenges of the 21st Century: Establishment of Global Peace, Justice, Stability and Security", have deliberated on developments and challenges facing the Muslim World as included in the Agenda of the Session and have resolved as follows:
FIRST: PALESTINIAN CAUSE:
1. Emphasize that the cause of Palestine and Al-Quds shall remain the main focal cause which makes it necessary for all our states, Parliaments and civil organizations, in the OIC space, to cooperate and coordinate in international and regional fora in order to support and defend it until the realization of the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in terms of the return of refugees, liberation from occupation and establishment of the independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital. As the city of Al-Quds is the spiritual capital of the Islamic Ummah and the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, we consider it as a red line which cannot be crossed.
2. Re-emphasize that the city of Al-Quds is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories as stated in Security Council Resolutions No. 242 of 1967 and 338 of 1973, to which the Fourth Geneva of 1948 is applicable, as provided in several UN Security Council Resolutions. Strongly condemn authorities of occupation for the repeated violations of sanctities in the city of Al-Quds by building the separation wall and settlements as well as continuation of excavation works under the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque which will lead to undermine the supporting pillars. Also denounces Israel’s illegal measures and practices which run counter to international resolutions and laws carried out by the occupations authorities in the city of AL-Quds, aimed at the Judaization of the Holy city and obliterating its Arab and Islamic landmarks.
3. Strongly rejects the plan by Israel to declare the occupied City of Al Quds as the Capital of the Zionist entity and the Jewish People. This declaration is considered a direct aggression on the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights. Categorically reject all the Israeli discourses mentioning “The Greater Al-Qods along with any other statements concerning the solution of Al-Quds issue on the basis of placing it under international mandate.
4. Stress the importance of following up and implementing the international resolutions on the Palestinian cause, especially those concerning ensuring the political and civil rights of the Palestinian people which will enable them to establish their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
5. Welcome achievement of the Palestinian national unity, and consider it as the corner stone for renewal of the Palestinian drive aimed at realizing its sublime aims of the total liberation of the Palestinian soil and the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital. Commend the reconciliation agreement which was signed by the delegations of both Fatah and Hamas on 23rd April 2014 which is considered an implementation of the Cairo and Makka agreements as well as Doha Declarations.
6. Stress our strong backing to the efforts of the State of Palestine to rally international support for achieving the inalienable Palestinian rights, for most of which is their right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital. Renew in this respect our appeal to the Security Council to consider with an approving eye the request submitted by the State of Palestine to gain the full membership of the United Nations.
7. Emphasize our categorical rejection of “the Jewishness of the Israeli state”, and strongly support the stance of the Palestinian people and leaders of rejecting the Jewishness of the Hebrew state. Stress that resisting occupation is an inherent right of the Palestinian people.
8. Call for lifting the blockade imposed on the Palestinian people, especially on Gaza strip, we call also for supporting the steadfastness of the Maghdessi citizens and for serious action to ensure release of the administrative detainees and prisoners. We condemn the criminal Israeli practices of torturing, isolating and humiliating them, we demand their immediate release.
9. Condemn the continuous crimes perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities in Palestine, especially in Gaza strip, which resulted in victimizing thousands of innocent martyrs and wounded people, in blatant violations of Palestinian human rights. Demand the prosecution of the Israeli officials for the war crimes which they have committed in Gaza strip and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories. Denounce the continuing practices of isolating and blockading the Palestinian people and the Israeli repressive measures such as murder, demolition of houses, bulldozing lands, establishing settlements and erecting the racist separation wall. Call for wide actions for ending the blockade. We also request to expedite action in order to finalize the operations of rehabilitating the strip and eliminating the effects of the barbaric Israeli aggression from its landmarks.
10. Support the accession of the State of Palestine to all international agreements and organizations, including the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice.
11. Strongly condemn Israel’s refusal to allow UNESCO’s technical mission to investigate attacks on Holy places in the old Al-Quds, denounce Israel’s attempts aimed at usurping and Judaizing the Palestinian heritage as well as falsifying the history of Palestine, and the inclusion of the Holy Ibrahim Mosque in the city of Al Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque in Bethlehem in the list of its heritage. Call, in this regard, the UNESCO to implement the resolutions adopted by its Executive Council (186th session) concerning Palestinian historic and cultural sites ; in order to prevent Israel from destroying the Palestinian heritage, and warn that the Israeli attempts to legalize its null procedures in the occupied territories may lead to the explosion of the situation in the region and rekindle religious conflict in the area for which Israel should be fully responsible. Calls on the international community to curb Israel – the occupation force – to compel it to halt its serious aggressions and disregard of peace and security in the region.
12. Request the managers of the funds created for AL-Quds to operationalize them in support of the steadfastness of Al-Quds people and settling them in their city. Also appeal to the Arab and Muslim Ummah, peoples and governments for further solidarity to confront the Israeli arrogance and the occupation authorities’ express disesteem of the historical, cultural, and religious rights of the Palestinian people. Also call for the execution of the projects that enhance the steadfastness of the Holy city, its people and institutions. Also call for supporting all the initiatives and the good works which are carried out by various bodies, including in particular the OIC Al-Quds Committee, and its financial and field arm “Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency”.
13. Welcome the proposal by Turkey to establish an International Al-Quds Foundation whose membership is open to all.
SECOND: OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES IN SYRIA AND LEBANON
14. Praise the steadfastness of the Syrian and the Lebanese citizens, and commend their holding onto their land and identity as well as their resistance of the Israeli occupation. Strongly condemn Israel’s decision to impose its laws and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan and its non-abidance by international resolutions, especially the UN Security Council Resolution No 947 of 1981. Emphasize the nullity and illegality of the Israeli decisions thereon. Also condemn Israel’s threats against Lebanon and the Israeli provocative military maneuvers on the borders of Lebanon, as well as the air and sea violations. Demand putting an end to the Israeli occupation of Shebaa Farms and Kafar shouba Hills and the Lebanese section of Al-Gajar village, considered as contradictory to the UN Security Council Resolution No 1701.
15. Strongly condemn Israel, the occupation force, for its persistence in changing the legal nature of the occupied Syrian Golan and its demographic setup and institutional structure, and for its policies and practices as represented especially in usurping lands and water resources, building and expanding settlements and transferring settlers to these areas. Strongly condemn the repeated Israeli aggressive violations of the Syrian air space and aggression on Syrian sovereignty through attacking some positions inside Syrian territories which constitutes a flagrant violation of the international law and the UN charter, and endangers regional stability as well as international peace and security, and hold Israel fully responsible for these naked violations.
16. Emphasize the right of Lebanon in its oil and gas resources maritime territory and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as per the maps which were deposited by the Lebanese government with the UN General Secretariat and support Lebanon’s rejection of the geographical coordinates which Israel has deposited at the United Nations concerning the northern part of the territorial waters and the EEZ which Israel claims that they belong to it.
17. Commend the significant effort that have been made by neighboring countries to Syria and other countries in the region to accommodate Syrian displaced persons, while acknowledging the increasing, political, socioeconomic and financial impact of the presence of a large scale movement of people into neighboring countries, notably in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
18. Request the OIC Member States and all members of the international community, including all donors, to fulfill their previous pledges and continue to provide much needed support to the United Nations, its specialized agencies and other humanitarian actors to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions of Syrians displaced both internally and in host countries;
THIRD: REJECTION OF DEFAMATION OF DIVINE RELIGIONS AND COMBATING INTOLERANCE, ISLAMOPHOBIA AND XENOPHOBIA
19. Condemn in the strongest terms the defamation of Prophet Mohammed, the Last of all Messengers (PBUH), and declare that his sanctity is - for1.5 billion - people a red line which cannot be crossed; Condemn also the expressions of blasphemy used specially in the West under the guise of freedom of expression and press, Call on all political groups and leaders to act in a responsible manner and to consider that all denigrating acts and messages against the secured values of all people and societies are hate crimes, consistent with universal principle that requires the limitation of the freedom of one with the right of the other. While condemning the Paris terrorist attacks, stress the necessity of reacting to all terrorist attacks indiscriminately, as proof of the common fight against terrorism, which was demonstrated following these attacks.
20. Affirm the existence of established international legal instruments stipulating that the right to freedom of expression must not be used as a means for insulting religions and sanctities.
21. Call on the United Nations to adopt an international legal instrument criminalizing abuse of divine religions and slandering Messengers and Prophets, in order to ensure peaceful coexistence of different views. Recommend to the OIC Member States to continue their endeavor at the UN for the purpose of achieving this aim;
FOURTH: COMBATING TERRORISM AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM
22. Emphasize the responsibility of all states in the field of refraining from using or threatening to use violence and violent extremism against the territorial integrity of other states or their political independence. Encourage the Member Parliaments to pay more attention to combating terrorism and violent extremism with all means, including addressing the root causes as well as enhancing moderation, tolerance, and dialogue.
23. Strongly denounce all terrorist actions, means and practices, in all forms and manifestations, including state terrorism, considered as inexcusable criminal actions wherever they are committed and whoever committed them.
24. Request all political and religious leaders in the Islamic world to unify their ranks in combating violent extremism in all its forms and manifestations, considering it as a way towards schism and an excuse for violence.
25. Condemn acts of terrorism, in all form and manifestations, especially state terrorism. Stress that these acts contradict the teachings of the true Islamic religion which call for tolerance and compassion and rejection of violence, and which proscribe other forms of aggression especially murder, irrespective of color, religion, sect or race.
26. Emphasize the inevitability of the separating between terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and the right of states and peoples to resistance and armed struggle against foreign occupiers and colonizers in order to liberate their homelands and recover their legitimate rights provided by the UN charter and all international agreements and conventions, considered as an inherent right of peoples under occupation. Recommend to the OIC to constitute a legal committee to be charged with reviewing the concept of terrorism and defining the controls which distinguish terrorist actions from other actions so that the views of the committee shall be a reference in this field.
27. Strongly condemn terrorist actions which have targeted researchers, scientists, and university lecturers as well as vital installations in a number of Islamic countries.
28. Condemn in the strongest terms all acts of terrorism and violence perpetrated by DEASH. We also condemn its ideology of violence and violent extremism, and emphasize that what DEASH is doing cannot, and must not, linked to any religion, nationality or civilization.
29. Strongly condemn all the terrorist actions and the violence perpetrated by DEASH and other terrorist organizations inside Iraq and their control and presence in some cities, regions and locations. Denounce their violations of historical mosques, destruction of churches and the burning of temples of other religions. Request to support Iraq in its war on terrorism.
30. Strongly denounce terrorist actions which are perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria, Cameron, Chad, and Niger. Request to support these states to confront the actions of this group.
31. Strongly denounce also the savage, inhuman terrorist attacks on children in one of the schools in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Express our profound sympathies and condolences with the families and victims of this detestable terrorist action, as well as with the people and government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
32. Agree to the preparation of a PUIC charter for combating terrorism and extremism and mandate the Executive Committee with drawing up this charter and submitting it to the next Conference.
FIFTH: REJECTING THE UNJUST SANCTIONS IMPOSEDON MUSLIM COUNTRIES
33. Strongly reject the principal of imposing any kind of sanctions, whether unilateral or multilateral, on any Islamic state. Express our strong support for these states and condemn the continuation of these sanctions due to their negative impacts on the social and humanitarian activities as well as socioeconomic development of these states.
SIXTH: ACCESS TO MODERN TECHNOLOGIES FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES, AND MAKING THE MIDDLE EAST A ZONE FREE OF ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PARTICULARLY NUCLEAR WEAPONS
34. Emphasize the right of all countries to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, including their policies concerning nuclear fuel cycle, in accordance with the NPT. Express our concern for the restrictions put on by some states on international cooperation in the field of research and transfer of equipment, materials and technology for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as these restrictions are in conflict with article 4 of the NPT. Deplore the escalation of pressures and threats used in order to prevent this legal right wherever it may be. Stress the necessity of resolving differences by peaceful diplomatic means.
35. Express our utmost concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities and threats and confirm the necessity of compelling Israel to open his nuclear facilities and programs to monitoring and inspection in accordance with the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as the necessity of Israel’s accession to the NPT and vacating the Middle East region from weapons of mass destruction, considered as constituting a basis for security and stability in the Middle east and enabling avoidance of double standards in international interaction. Call for further cooperation and coordination among the states of the member parliaments in international conferences which are held to review this matter.
SEVENTH: THE SUDAN
36. Emphasize our support to the Sudan in facing all foreign threats and express solidarity with it in defending its sovereignty, security and stability. Highly appreciates the good efforts exerted regionally and internationally in order to establish peace in Darfur, and invite international community to fulfill all its declared commitments to realize sustainable peace and development in the Sudan.
37. Request the Islamic states to increase their developmental, financial and technical assistance to address the root causes of the problem.
38. Emphasize our rejection of the decision of the International Criminal Court on 4th of March 2009, containing an arrest warrant against H.E. the President of the Republic of the Sudan Mr. Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, and call for the absolute and unconditional revocation of this decision considered as a flagrant violation of the international law and a blatant breach of the national sovereignty of the Republic of the Sudan.
EIGHTH: SOMALIA
39. Stress commitment to restore and preserve the unity, sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Somalia and restoration of security therein. Reject strongly any foreign intervention in Somalia outside legitimate frameworks.
40. Support the success of the political process, and building of the institutions of the state, and drawing up an official constitution of the country. Call upon all Somali and international parties to support Somali government and act in support with it for the sake of restoring security, stability and sovereignty over all its territory.
41. Welcome the improvement of security in Somalia and call on the international community to honor its promises concerning restoration of security and stability in Somalia, reconstruction of war devastated areas, training national cadres, modernizing government departments and reactivating the judicial bodies whose main function is to enforce law and order in the country.
NINETH: SITUATION IN MALI AND NEIGHBORING STATES
42. Stress our principled position in support of preserving the sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity of the Republic of Mali. Congratulate the government of Mali on the peace-promotion measures taken, namely the liberation of prisoners, as provided for in the Ouagadougou Agreement, and underscore the importance of launching an inclusive dialogue and reconciliation process urgently, and urge the parties to encourage the holding of talks on the Malian territories.
43. Urge the Malian authorities to expedite the reconciliation process with the support of international partners consistent with the relevant resolutions adopted by ECOWAS, the African Security and Peace Council as well as the UN Security Council Resolution 2100 of 2013.
TENTH: SITUATION IN CYPRUS
44. Call upon the states of PUIC Member Parliaments to support effective solidarity with the Turkish Cypriot State and maintain close links with it, aiming to help it overcome the inhuman isolation imposed on it and consolidate and strengthen their relations with the Turkish Cypriot State in all fields and reiterate necessity of implementing previous OIC resolutions on the issue of Cyprus as well as the PUIC resolutions.
45. Welcome the willingness shown by the Turkish Cypriot side and Turkey for a political and lasting settlement inconformity with the efforts of the UN Secretary General.
ELEVENTH: PROTECTION OF MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND MINORITIES:
46. Call on Greece to respect the rights of the Turkish Muslim minority in Western Thrace and Dodecanese. Request Greece to take the necessary measures to preserve Mosques, places of worship, and Muslim cemeteries.
47. Urge our governments to pay attention to the minority in the Crimea, especially Muslim Tartars, and to follow up closely their conditions in order to ensure their enjoyment of their human rights.
48. Confirm the PUIC commitment towards Muslim communities and minorities living in non-OIC Member States and call for action to solve their problems in such a way as to ensure their enjoyment of their fundamental rights, such as the exercise of democratic right, religious freedom and worship, and the protection of Holy and places and historic sites.
49. Reaffirm our support to the Peace Agreement signed between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front on 2 September 1996 in Manila ; call for the speedy and complete implementation of the provisions of this agreement; Welcome the Framework Agreement concluded between the Government of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front on 15 October 2012; and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 27 March 2014; and Express the hope that these agreements will be implemented in good faith; Also Urge States of Member Parliaments as well as charitable institutions in the Islamic World to increase their humanitarian assistance for Muslims in Southern Philippines in order to accelerate economic and social development.
50. Condemn the ongoing systematic brutal acts perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar which constitute a serious and blatant violation of international law and International Human Rights covenants; Particularly denounce involvement of security forces and Buddhist militias in these acts of killings and forced displacement of citizens and burning of their houses and places of worship; call on the government of Myanmar honor its obligations according to International Law and Human Rights covenants, and to take all measures to immediately halt acts of dispersion and discriminatory practices against Rohingya Muslims, as well as the continuous attempts to obliterate their Islamic culture and identity; Call upon the governments of PUIC Member Parliaments to continue their efforts together with those of the international community and the UN in order to ensure the return of all Myanmar’s refugees who have been deported from Rakhin State (Arakan).
51. Request the UN Security Council to conduct an investigation and a fact-finding mission on the killings, violation of freedoms, and the displacement of the Muslim minority in Myanmar; and to initiate a criminal case at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
52. Follow with grave concern the plight of Muslims in the Central African Republic who are subjected to killing, displacement and the destruction of their properties; and call on the International Human Rights Council (HRC) and relevant institutions to act promptly, in coordination with the African Union and the authorities in the Central African Republic to conduct a fact-finding mission in Central Africa and demand that its government brings those responsible for those tragic events to justice.
53. Urge the UN Security Council to investigate the killings and violation of the rights of the international minority in this country, and to initiate a criminal case against the Government of the Central African Republic at the International Criminal Court.
TWELFTH: JAMMU AND KASHMIR
54. Call for finding a peaceful solution to the Jammu and Kashmir issue in line with the UN relevant resolutions, consistent with what has been agreed upon in Simla; support the efforts exerted by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to achieve peace by different diplomatic means, including bilateral talks with India, taking into account the right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to self-determination.
55. Express our concern over the Indian occupation forces’ recurrent violation of the cease-fire along the Line of Control since early 2013; and appreciate Pakistan’s policy of self-restraint, responsibility and dialogue in favor of pervasive regional peace.
THIRTHEENTH : AGGRESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
56. Demand the strict implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 and the unconditional, complete and immediate withdrawal of Armenian forces from all occupied Azerbaijan territories; and strongly urge Armenia to respect the sovereignty of the Republic of Azerbaijan and its territorial integrity.
57. Condemn the brutal aggressions against Mosques and Islamic Holy places, resulting in considerable losses of Islamic antiquities, and cultural heritage in Azerbaijani territories; and condemn the horrifying genocide that took place in Azerbaijani city of Khujali in 1992, when, in few hours on the night of 25 – 26 February 1992, 613 civilians were killed including 106 women and 83 children.
58. Reaffirm our complete solidarity and support for the efforts of the government and people of the Republic of Azerbaijan in defending their country; and urge for the provision of humanitarian assistance to Azerbaijani refugees and displaced persons who face dire living conditions, in preparation for their return to their homes from which they have been displaced.
FORTEENTH – ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND ENVIRONMENT
59. Highly appreciate the efforts of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for the enhancement and promotion of intra-OIC trade.
60. Strongly reject the principle of imposing sanctions, of whatever form –unilateral or multilateral– on States; express absolute solidarity with Islamic countries that are subject to such sanctions; and reaffirm that economic and financial measures should not be used as a means for political coercion as this results in depriving the targeted people from exercising their natural right to realizing development.
61. Confirm the International Community's rejection of a country's conferring supremacy to its national legislations over the rules of the international law aimed at prejudicing the sovereignty and interests of states and their peoples.
62. Express our satisfaction at the constant increase in intra-OIC trade which reached 18.45% in 2012.
63. Express our solidarity with the African peoples affected by natural disasters and desertification; and support all efforts exerted to confront such catastrophes and phenomena.
64. Appeal to our governments to secure financial and technical support required to address desertification and climate change in Islamic countries, particularly in Africa and Asia, and call for considering the possibility of involving non-governmental civil society organizations working in the Islamic world in providing all forms of humanitarian aids, including addressing desertification and climate change to afflicted countries.
65. Call on OIC Member States to exert further efforts to activate the Trade Preferential System (OIC-TPS) among OIC countries.
66. Call also on OIC Member States to consider establishing an Islamic Common Market to facilitate and increase the volume of intra-OIC trade.
67. Request the Islamic Development Bank to provide further support for the creation of an Islamic Banking System model for the OIC Member State.
68. Invite the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) to conduct a thorough study on the negative impacts of economic and financial sanctions on the enjoyment of the peoples of targeted OIC Member States of their human rights in full.
69. Express our concern about the negative impacts of the problem of external debt on Islamic countries which constitutes a burden on their economies and endangers their national sovereignty; call on the OIC and its economic and financial institutions to prepare an exhaustive study of this problem and its impacts on the economic progress of the Islamic countries, and call for approaching donor states and international financial institutions with a view to writing off those debts.
FIFTEENTH: CULTURAL AND LEGAL AFFAIRS AND DIALOGUE OF CIVIZILATIONS AND RELIGIONS
70. Strongly condemn the rescreening of offensive films and caricature insulting Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and religious symbols; and demand the immediate cessation of such provocations and the preservation of Islamic sanctuaries the world over.
71. Affirm that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is a place of worship for Muslims and that Jews have no right to enter its precincts and perform their rituals therein; warn the Zionist occupation authorities against continuing excavations underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque and against any aggressions that imperil the First Qibla and Third of the Holy Mosques; request Islamic governments to adopt a strong, urgent and practical position, using all available options in accordance with the international law in order to protect Al Aqsa Mosque and counter the conspiracies thereon which have come to final stages of its demolition and the establishment of the so-called temple in its place.
72. Call for preparing a project through consultation with the OIC Cultural organs as well as scholars and elites from various parts of the world to contribute to an effective and constructive dialogue between the Islamic and Western Civilizations, and project a true and positive image of the Islamic civilization; call on the Member Parliaments to enact the necessary legislations in this respect; and invite the IDB and the Islamic Solidarity Fund to support this project.
73. Stress the importance of establishing national Islamic television channels broadcasting in foreign languages, in order to project the true image of Islam; and urge ISESCO to establish specialized channels in this respect.
74. Call on Non-Muslim states in which Muslims live to guarantee and safeguard their civil and religious rights, including their right to a just human treatment and to accessing halal food and drink in all places and on all occasions.
75. Express the need for adopting a priority common policy aimed at preventing the distortion of Islam’s image on the pretext of freedom of expression, particularly through mass media and the internet.
76. Urge States to prosecute those responsible for stereotyping, prejudice, misleading of people through media and the internet -particularly with regard to members of Ethnic and religious minorities- impartially and warn any person comm?tt?ng such acts.
77. Call for refraining from playing on the strings of sectarianism to sow dissension among the constituents of peoples and incite to dissent, particularly on sectarian grounds; and affirm that the killing of innocent people and the perpetration of suicide bombings are abhorrent terrorist acts which cannot be attributed to Islam and whose perpetrators and instigators cannot be affiliated thereto.
78. Invite the States of PUIC Member Parliaments to establish and maintain cooperation and promote dialogue, understanding and cooperation with Non-Muslim states at the levels of religions, cultures and civilizations.
79. Express hope that PUIC Member Parliaments would use traditional media and social networking effectively to promote the values and goals of the Alliance of Civilizations.
80. Call on the Arabic-speaking Islamic States, particularly those which have financial potential to support the youth in non-Arabic speaking Islamic countries, and to provide scholarships and suitable educational programs that help the youth of poor Islamic Countries to learn the Arabic language as a means to understand Islam, and to finance those programs and scholarships through their own resources and through Zakat funds.
81. Recommend continued support for the organization and holding of training courses for teachers of the Arabic language and Islamic culture in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans.
82. Urge the States of Member Parliaments to pay attention to school curricula intended for the younger generations in the Arab and Islamic world, especially in primary and secondary schools, to educate them on the Palestinian cause, particularly Al-Quds.
83. Express deep concern over the safety and security of the Muslim minority in India.
84. Urge the international community, especially the States of Member Parliaments, to exert utmost efforts to protect the basic rights of the Kashmiri people, including their right to self-determination in accordance with relevant UN Resolutions, and to safeguard their religious and cultural rights and preserve their Islamic heritage.
85. Strongly condemn the barbaric acts committed by the Armenian aggressors in the Republic of Azerbaijan for the total destruction of the Islamic heritage in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
86. Assert that Azerbaijan is entitled to adequate compensation for the damages it has sustained and affirm the Republic of Armenia’s responsibility to pay up full compensation for such damages in accordance with the international law.
87. Call on governments of Islamic States to submit for adoption by the United Nations a draft international law, which incriminates prejudice and insult to religious sanctities, symbols and fundamental constants.
88. Commend parliaments that have established focal points on dialogue of civilizations, and request the PUIC General Secretariat to circulate the expertise of the focal points in national parliaments it receives from Member Parliaments.
SIXTEENTH: HUMAN RIGHTS, WOMEN AND FAMILY
89. Recommend to PUIC Member Parliaments the necessity of teaching, within their educational curricula, a special course, on human rights and democratic principles in light of the Islamic shari’a.
90. Strongly reject and condemn politicization, selectivity and discrimination in dealing with issues related to human rights at the regional and international levels, and reject attempts to exploit the issue of human rights to throw doubts on to the principles and fundamentals of the Islamic shari'a and interfere in the internal affairs of Islamic States.
91. Condemn the barbaric Zionist aggression against Palestine and express support with the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli occupation jails, including members of the Palestinian National Council, which constitutes a blatant violation of human rights; and calls for Israeli settlers to be brought to justice.
92. Strongly condemn violence committed by armed gangs against women and children in Mali, Nigeria and Cameroon and in other areas of conflict, in the name of Islam; and call upon the international community to intervene to put an end the horrible atrocities before it is too late.
93. Strongly condemn also the violations of human rights perpetrated by DEASH terrorist group by humiliating women and selling them in the slave market, torturing its opponents and killing them in cold blood in both Iraq and Syria; and emphasize that such acts do not relate whatsoever to Islam or to its teachings or tolerant ethics.
94. Strongly reject the repeated and widespread association of Islam and Moslems with terrorism and violation of human rights, which has led to the intensification of Islamophobia as well as the increase of prejudice and discrimination against Moslems in all parts of the world.
95. Urge Islamic organizations to cooperate with international and regional organizations to ensure human rights of Muslim minorities living in some non-OIC countries.
96. Call on the mass media in the States of PUIC Member Parliaments and outside those States to maintain preciseness and accuracy in covering political events and to refrain from adding a sectarian nature thereto; and Call for vigilance in their quest for sensational reporting the causes of conflicts in order to avoid widening the scope of disputes and conflicts threatening regional and international peace and security.
97. Urge PUIC Member Parliaments to promote gender mainstreaming as a key strategy for achieving gender equality, justice and complementarity and women empowerment, and enhance their participation as a genuine partner in achieving inclusive sustainable development, in addition to the development of the intellectual character of women, providing means for disseminating their intellectual production and developing media performance in addressing women-related issues.
98. Call upon PUIC Member Parliaments to ensure the protection of the rights ofwomen and children, liminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women and children through the adoption ofappropriate national laws and legislations, raise women’s awareness of their legitimate and legal rights, and prevent all forms of women exploitation and slavery.
99. Request countries of the PUIC Member Parliaments to support poverty-eradication measures by ensuring women’s equal access to full employment and decent work, inter alia, through the consideration of measures to remove structural and legal barriers, and to provide women with opportunities for economic empowerment to be self-sufficient.
100. Call upon PUIC Member Parliaments to ensure allocation of an adequate budget to implement the strategy and policy aimed at achieving gender equality and women empowerment in all aspects of development.
101. Call for supporting Palestinian women, especially Maghdesi women who are holding fast in Al-Quds, and are suffering oppression and persecution by settlers who seek to uproot people from their land and tamper with their holy places.
102. Call for establishing human rights and media mechanisms and institutions combating all manifestations of violence against women, and provide legal support for affected women.
103. Call on the states of the Islamic World to create mechanisms and enact laws that prevent the exploitation of women and abuse of their dignity
104. Request Member States to enable women’s external communication through their participation in international and regional conferences to share experiences.
105. Call on the Member Parliaments and their governments to ensure participation of the youth in their political agenda and boost efforts aimed at ensuring adequate representation and participation of the youth in decision making.
106. Call on PUIC Parliaments and their governments to address the phenomenon of youth unemployment by developing executive programs and taking measures for capacity-building and executing employment projects for the youth.
107. Call on also the PUIC Member Parliaments to urge their respective governments to act, with the assistance of the International community and civil society organizations, to improve the conditions of children, especially those living in difficult conditions such as Syrian and Iraqi refugees living under occupation, violent conflicts, and natural disasters, and in famine-hit areas in Eastern Africa and the African Sahel region, as well as the victims of the conflict in the Central African Republic.
108. Urge the Member States to sign and ratify the OIC Convention on the Rights of the Child in Islam, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Children and the attached optional protocols, and to develop necessary mechanisms to activate these conventions to guide UN committees in dealing with Muslim children.
109. Call for including family education as a sound approach to motherhood, which is both a religious duty and a social function, for recognizing that children upbringing is a responsibility shared by both parents, and for preventing any attempts to separate the child from the family.
110. Urge PUIC Member Parliaments to extend assistance in the field of health to needy states, especially in West Africa and the Palestinian occupied territories and in refugee camps, including health clinics and centers, hospitals, and health teams, equipment and medicines.
111. Call on the PUIC Member Parliaments and their respective governments to immediately extend necessary help and assistance to the countries of West Africa in order to contain and eliminate the fatal Ebola disease.
112. Request the WHO and international organizations as well as non-governmental organizations active in the field of health and all World States, especially developed countries, to urgently and effectively cooperate in order to contain Ebola disease and completely eliminate it.
113. Call for establishing an Islamic Health Center for research in endemic and fast-spreading diseases such as Ebola, AIDS, Malaria, etc. The Center shall carry out research and studies on these diseases and devise ways to limit their spreading and eradicate them.
114. Request governments of PUIC Member Parliaments, especially rich Member States, to cooperate in extending the necessary financial and in-kind support to establish the proposed Islamic Health Center, and finance it in such a way as to manufacture vaccines and medicines, and hostits headquarters.
115. Commend the governments of PUIC Member Parliaments and other states and organizations which have extended medical and in-kind assistance to eliminate the disease, take care of patients and infected person and bury the dead. Also commend the medical teams and the volunteers who have extended, and continue to extend, great humanitarian services in critical health conditions.
116. Call for involving women and benefitting from their capacities to solve problems and local and regional conflicts, considering that they are the ones most affected by the disastrous outcomes of wars and conflicts; and call for the protection of Muslim women and children in occupied and conflict areas, particularly Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and other conflict areas in the Islamic World.
117. Call for standardizing legal systems and family codes on women and the family, with a view to reaching convergence and coordination and share experiences relating to the elaboration of legislations which promote the status of women and preserve their rights and duties.
118. Welcome the consensus for the establishment of the Association of Secretaries General of the Member Parliaments of the PUIC and support further efforts to enhance cooperation and dialogue among administrative organs of the member parliaments of the PUIC. Call for the drafting of Rules of Procedure of ASG PUIC and the submission of the finalized Rules of Procedure to the Executive Committee and the Conference of the PUIC.
SEVENTHEENTH: SITUATION IN YEMEN
119. Follow up with the utmost concern the aggravating development of events in the capital of the Republic of Yemen “Sanaa” during the convening of the Conference. Express regret that conditions have led to the use of force and violence. Call upon all parties to abide by the implementation of the Gulf Initiative and its Executive mechanism and the outcome of national dialogue, the Agreement on Peace and National Partnership, and all the consensual accord thereon reached at the table of national dialogue which constitute a safe political mechanism that is indispensable in these conditions through which Yemen is passing, and which ensure participation of all political parties without exclusion of any party. Recommend, in this respect, to the governments of the OIC Member States- especially countries with distinguished impact- to support Yemen, materially and morally, in order to get it out of its aggravating crisis, especially in such critical, exceptional circumstances, in a way to ensure preservation of the unity, security and stability of Yemen.
EIGHTEENTH: THANKS AND APPRECIATION
120. The Conference extends sincere thanks and appreciation to the leadership, people and officials of the Republic of Turkey, especially the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for its remarkable hospitality and generosity which contributed to the success of the 10th Session of the PUIC Conference. The Conference highly appreciates all efforts exerted to attain the desired objectives, and expresses to the leadership, Government and people of the Republic of Turkey and to the Grand National Assembly, its best wishes for progress and prosperity.