AHG/Res. 109 (XIX) RESOLUTION ON THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Nineteenth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 6 to 12 June, 1983, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity on the Middle East and the Palestinian Questions, Document AHG/111 (XIX); Having heard the statements of various delegations and, in particular, that of the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Recalling the resolutions adopted by the sessions of the Council of Ministers on the Problem of the Middle East and on the Palestinian Question; Further recalling the report of the United Nations Committee on the exercise of the inalienable rights of the people of Palestine (Document A/34/35) which reaffirms the inalienable national rights of the people of Palestine to their homeland including their rights to return to it, to self-determination, to sovereignty as well as to the establishment of an independent state on their soil, Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charters of the Organization of African Unity and of the United Nations and by the common struggle against Zionism and racism for the cause of freedom, independence and peace, Recalling that the Palestine Question constitutes the very core of the Middle East conflict, and the PLO is the only legitimate representative of the people of Palestine, Reiterating the relevant decisions of the OAU making the Palestinian Question an Arab and African issue, Conscious of the seriousness of the present situation resulting from the continued occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories by Israel, its refusal to respect the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations, its