Having failed to make much headway in the United Nations on the issue of Jerusalem, despite the passage of the anti-Israel resolution by the Security Council, the ministers of foreign affairs of 39 Islamic countries met in Fez and emerged with the following resolution. It did not deal only with Jerusalem, but also with other issues of the Arab-Israel conflict and inter alia, resolved to struggle against the Camp David agreements. Text
The Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic countries, meeting in extraordinary session at Fez, 9-11 Dou Kaada (18-20 September 1980), in accordance with the recommendation of the Al Qods Committee, studied the grave circumstances attendant upon the problem of Al Qods and Palestine in the wake of the decision of the Israeli Knesset to annex, the Holy City and to consider it as the "Eternal and indivisible Capital" of the Zionist entity. The conference regarded this as a flagrant outrage deeply offensive to Muslims and as a criminal act directed against the Islamic nation. This act also confirms Israel's refusal to respect the latest resolution, No. 478, of the Security Council, which considers all Israeli legislative and administrative measures as well as the maneuvers designed to alter the status and position of Al Qods to be null and void, and it asks that they be immediately set aside.
Confirming the commitment of the Islamic states to take up this challenge to liberate Al Qods Al Sharif and to maintain the Arab and Islamic sovereignty over the Holy City,
Reaffirming the support of the Islamic states for the Palestinian people and their determination to oppose this Israeli aggression by deploying all their resources and capabilities to continue to sustain the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people until AI Qods has been liberated and until the Palestinian people have recovered their inalienable rights, including their right to self-determination and to the establishment of a Palestinian State on their territory;
Animated by the spirit of Islamic solidarity, the Conference
1. Adopts the recommendations and resolutions of the Al Qods Committee formulated or adopted at the time of the extraordinary meeting held in Casablanca, 16-18 August 1980, and charges all Islamic countries to carry them out;
2. Reaffirms the commitment of the Islamic countries to utilize all their political, financial, oil-producing and military capabilities to oppose the Israeli decision to annex Al Qods and their determination to impose a political and economic boycott on those nations who recognize the Israeli decision, contribute to its implementation, or establish diplomatic missions in Al Qods Al Sharif;
3. Urges the nations of the entire world to avoid maintaining relations with the Israeli authorities that might be susceptible of being exploited in any way whatsoever by those authorities as an argument for recognizing the status quo in Al Qods and in all the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories. Such exploitation might expose the countries in question to boycott measures by the Islamic countries.
4. Accepts with satisfaction Security Council Resolution 478 of 20 August 1980 and urges that it take the necessary measures to apply military and economic sanctions against Israel as stipulated by the Charter of the United Nations.
5. Expresses its complete approval of the decision of certain countries to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Al Qods Al Sharif, an action whereby those countries recognize that the character of the Israeli decision is both invalid and illegal. The Conference also emphasizes that the response of all those countries to the appeal of the Islamic nations that they transfer their embassies out of Al Qods confirms that the international community totally rejects the Israeli measure aimed at annexing AI Qods and making it the capital of the Zionist entity;
6. Notes with satisfaction the Swiss Government's refusal to sign an accord with Israel at Al Qods and hopes that all other countries will follow that example;
7. Reaffirms the total support of the Islamic countries for the Palestine Liberation Organization and their determination to bring to it all the support necessary to oppose the war of extermination which Israel is waging in occupied Palestine and in southern Lebanon to liquidate and annihilate the Palestinian people. The Conference also condemns the Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon and urges the member states to lend their support to the Lebanese Government to help it put an end to this aggression.
8. Decides to sustain the Arab people of Palestine materially and politically, both inside and outside the occupied Arab territories, and to reinforce their means of struggle against the conspiracies carried out on behalf of "self-determination" and to strengthen their resistance to the Israeli occupation and to the racist measures taken by the Zionist entity.
9. Demands that the members of the Islamic Conference who have already recognized Israel withdraw this recognition and break off political and economic relations with the Zionist entity;
10. Decides to pursue the struggle against the Camp David agreements until their total defeat is accomplished and to condemn all issues that might lead to, or culminate in, that agreement;
11. Vigorously condemns the policy of the United States of America which sustains the Israeli occupier and the establishing of Zionist colonies as well as the aggression against the holy places of Islam in the Palestinian and Arab territories. It likewise condemns the positions taken by the United States favorable to Israel in the face of international entreaties - positions that do injury to the rights of the Palestinian people and violate the Charter of the United Nations Organization and the universal declaration of the rights of man. The Conference deems these positions to be in contempt of the Islamic world;
12. Rejects any political settlement of the Palestinian problem and of the Arab-Israeli conflict so long as the imbalance of forces provoked by the signing of the accords of Camp David and of Washington (the Egyptian-Israeli treaty) and the Israeli machinations prevail.
The Conference also considers that Security Council Resolution No. 242 is incompatible with the rights of the Arab and Islamic Nation and that it cannot therefore serve as a basis for the settlement of the Middle East crisis and of the Palestinian problem in particular. The Conference insists that the United Nations resolutions relating to the problem of Palestine be implemented, notably Resolution No. 1 of the 7th Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly, and refuses all initiatives contrary to these resolutions;
13. Decides to pursue a course of political action, within the body of the United Nations as well as amongst the major powers, notably the states of the European Community, to assure itself of their support for the Palestinian cause and to focus upon appropriate measures to isolate Israel;
14. Decides to act in such a way as to lead the present General Assembly of the United Nations to adopt a resolution asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion concerning the Israeli practices and measures that violate the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the acts of aggression perpetrated by the Israeli authorities against the Palestinian people in Palestine and in the occupied Arab territories. It is understood, however, that the approaches to be undertaken with the view to obtaining this advisory opinion will in no way prevent the exercise of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people, and that they will also benefit from the previous agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization to serve as the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people;
15. Requests that the United Nations General Assembly refuse to accept the credentials of the Israeli Delegation to the United nations, inasmuch as they represent a government that violates international law by making Al Qods its capital.
16. Requests that the major powers and the International Organizations assume their responsibilities and accept the Israeli challenge by taking sanctions against Israel in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
17. Requests that the international community prohibit Jewish emigration to the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories - a reflection, on the one hand, of the policy of Zionist implantation in these territories, and on the other hand, of Israel's obstinate refusal to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to return to their fatherland, their right to self-determination, to sovereignty, and to the establishment of an independent State on their national soil;
18. Decides to multiply contacts with the Holy See and in Christian milieus to explain to them the Islamic position in the wake of the recent Israeli decision and to ask them to sustain the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization.
19. Decides to launch a vast campaign denouncing the Israeli decision and to carry into effect the legal plan to resist the Israeli challenge;
20. Urges the Member States to suspend all credits and all contributions to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, so long as those institutions do not agree to grant observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization;
21. Decides, in applying the resolutions of the Islamic Conference relating to this question, to create an Islamic Offlice for the Boycott of Israel which will be called upon to coordinate its action with that of the main office of boycott of Israel, which comes under the Secretariat General of the League of Arab States;
22. Decides to cover the capital sum for the Al Qods Fund, which will be managed under the Wajs.
23. The Islamic countries declare their total adherence to the Jihad, with the full meaning and all the implications for the human order which this requires, and to the extent that it also involves resistance and struggle against the Zionist enemy on every front - military, political, economic, cultural and legal.
24. The Conference instructed the Al Qods Committee to lay out a global plan for the purpose of taking stock of all the capabilities of the Islamic countries to oppose the Israeli aggression.
The Palestinian-Syrian working document relating to the questions of an economic, military and political nature will be submitted to the Al Qods Committee as soon as the global plan has been presented to the forthcoming Islamic Summit to be held in Saudi Arabia.