Most of the deputies who participated in the conference registered their affiliation, and after the elapse of approximately Five year since the establishment of the Union and by virtue of the interaction with Parliamentarians in several countries, the number has exceeded 325 affiliates pertaining to more than twenty-three nations.

The General Secretariat of the Union issued during the constituency stage more than one statement and letter signed by the deputies affiliated and addressed to the UN Secretary General and the Parliamentarians in the world regarding the fierce and oppressive violence to which both the Palestinian Cause and the Palestinian people have been exposed.

In June 2002, the International Union of Parliamentarians held its first conference in Beirut by convocation of its secretary general, and more than one hundred and fifty Parliamentarians affiliated to the Union attended the conference. During two days (18 – 19 June 2002 A.D.), the participants elected Mr. Ali Akbar Mohtashemi as Secretary General of the Union. They also elected an executive committee comprised of fifteen members, ratified the amendments of the articles of association, placed the detailed by-laws of the Union and issued in their final statement a list of recommendations and resolutions that outline the Union’s operational trends for the next two years.

The Second Conference entitled the Right of Return for the Palestinian People was held on Feb. 24-26, 2005 in Beirut. In this Conference the Union issued a Book entitled "The Right of Return: the Legal, Political, and Humanitarian Aspects", which includes the Second Conference's researches.

The main task of the Union’s work is oriented towards the establishment of a wider network of relations between the parliamentarians who sympathize with the Palestinian cause and its oppressed people, and the presence of the Palestinian cause in the Parliaments of several countries of the world is one of the most important operational objectives of the Union.

For that, we consider the participation of the Parliamentarians in defense of the Palestinian cause by virtue of their legal, legislative and parliamentarian positions to be a humanitarian obligation imposed by their free conscience, responsible humanity, rejection of injustice and oppression, love of freedom and respect of human rights.

Henceforth, we have the honor to invite all the Parliamentarians to affiliate to this Union so that they may join this blessed gathering and obtain the honor of participating in the defense of the holiest cause.

Objectives:

 Supporting the Palestinian Cause in all circles and defending the full rights of the Palestinian people.

 Supporting and assisting the right of return of all the Palestinian Refugees to their land and home.

 Supporting and assisting the right of the Palestinian people in liberating its land, in self-determination and establishing its state on its territory, having Jerusalem as its capital.

 Working to save Jerusalem from occupation and pledging to defend its Arab and Islamic identity in order to face the plans and procedures of Judaicization, and to protect its Islamic and Christian sacred places.

 Consolidating the presence of the Palestinian people in its land by assisting and supporting its resistance against occupation in all its forms, and providing Palestinians with all essential elements for their steadfastness and the continuation of their glorious Intifada on their national soil.

 Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions.

 Condemning the American wars in general, and also the threats by the United States to the Arab and Islamic states because of their support to the Palestinian cause.

 Seeking to spread a culture of resisting the normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation, and a culture of boycotting both the American and Israeli products.

 Adopting the causes of the Palestinian people and putting an end to their suffering under the occupation and in its prisons; seeking to defend the interests of the Palestinian people in Diaspora; from the viewpoint of the civil rights of the Palestinian refugees.

 Unveiling the regional and international attempts aiming at liquidating the Palestinian cause, and warning of the danger of these proposed initiatives.

 Exposing the dealings of every state or organism in supporting the Zionist entity against the objectives of the Palestinian people as well as exposing the policies of such states and boycotting them economically.

BRANCHES

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United Kingdom: contact Sukant Chandan: sukant.chandan@gmail.com