Assembly/AU/Dec.421(XIX) Page 1 DECISION ON PALESTINE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Doc. EX.CL/733(XXI) The Assembly, 1. TAKES NOTE of the report on the situation in Palestine and the Middle East; and Recalls all resolutions and decisions of the Organization of African Unity/African Union on the situation on Palestine and to achieve lasting peace and security in the Middle East; 2. REAFFIRMS its full support to the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle to end the Israeli occupation and to establish their independent state, under the leadership of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian People; 3. ALSO REAFFIRMS its support for the peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict in accordance with the principles of international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions to ensure the establishment of an independent Palestinian State on the borders of June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital; 4. RENEWS the Recognition of the State of Palestine on the borders of June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital and demands the State of Israel to recognise the State of Palestine within the Borders of 1967; 5. CONFIRMS that comprehensive, just and lasting peace can be achieved only through full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab and Palestinian territories to the lines of June 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights and Lebanese territories; 6. CONFIRMS its full support for the efforts of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO -the President of the State of Palestine-President Mahmoud Abbas, which aims to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, by applying the principle of the Two-State solution, and Renews its support to the Palestinian leadership and Arab leaders to achieve reconciliation in Palestine; 7. CALLS ON Member States of the African Union to be committed not to sign agreements with Israel which affect the Arab territories occupied since June 1967, including East Jerusalem, because it is contrary to the resolutions of the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations; 8. CONDEMNS all Israeli actions related to changing the cultural and historical monuments of the city of Jerusalem, through a policy of Judaization, house demolitions, the expulsion of the Palestinian population, the destruction of the Islamic and Christian holy and historic monuments, the construction of the bridge of the Mughrabi Gate, the Apartheid Wall, and the expansion of the illegal settlements in and around occupied East Jerusalem;