PFLP Spokesman Explains Refusal To Join New Coalition Government

2007-02-26

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Gaza - Ma'an - The spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has said that they appreciated the announcements of a number of factions, forces and personalities that proclaimed the necessity of the participation of the PFLP in the forthcoming coalition government.

The spokesman said in a statement for Ma'an that "the PFLP have declined to participate in the government for political reasons and their disagreement with the letter of assignment, which commanded the respect of the signed agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel. The agreements included official recognition of Israel and the cessation of resistance action, and maintained the roots of internal conflict between the presidency and the government and between the Fatah and Hamas movements. It constituted a fall in the national common program, as represented in the prisoners' document or the national accord document that got the unanimous and signed consent of all Palestinian social and political groups."

The 'Prisoners' Document' was drawn up by five Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. They were members of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The document advocates the setting up of a Palestinian state on the territories occupied after the 1967 war.

Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis