The Palestinian National Council (PNC) stressed that the Palestinian people need international conferences leading to the elimination of the Israeli occupation with all its effects on the land of the Palestinian state with its capital Jerusalem, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of international legitimacy, and does not need conferences calling for coexistence with the crimes and terrorism of this racist occupation, and prolonging its duration.

In a statement issued today, PNC warned against the Trump's administration call for an economic workshop in Bahrain to support peace and prosperity in the Palestinian territories to be held on 25 and 26 of June 2019, under false and deceptive allegations. Trump's administration capitalized on everything encourages the settlement and occupation interests, except peace and adherence to the rules of international law and the resolutions of international legitimacy on which its plan for peace in the Middle East must be based.

PNC affirmed that the real purpose of such conferences and invitations is to legitimize the American aggression that began on the Palestinian rights since December 2017 by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the occupying state and transferring the American embassy to it, trying to cancel the refugees issue, considering the settlements legitimate, the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, and other illegal steps.

PNC stressed that we need to remove the Israeli occupation where the Palestinian economy can be freed from dependency and attachment, so that the Palestinian people can control their capabilities, resources and their natural and economic resources. That’s to say Palestinian people are capable of exploiting all its resources and creating the development necessary to lead a dignified life far from blackmail and discrimination.

PNC added that any justification to participate in this economic workshop, under the pretext of contributing to the suffering of our people, are only arguments and justifications far from the real cause and objectives planned by the Trump's administration and the Israeli occupation state, to sell the illusion to the Palestinian people and the other peoples of the region, and the liquidation of Palestinian rights to self-determination, return and the establishment of a state with Jerusalem as its capital.

PNC affirmed that there will be no coexistence with the occupation, and that development, investment and improvement of the standard of living are the rights of Palestinian people. This will only be achieved by ending the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, and resolving the refugee issue in accordance with UN Resolution 194.

PNC called on the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union, and the Islamic Parliaments Unions to openly express their positions by rejecting all plans, workshops and invitations that violate the resolutions of the Arab and Islamic summits, and the resolutions of Arab and Islamic parliaments that prohibit any form of normalization with the Israeli occupation.