Joint communiqué of the PFLP, DFLP and Hamas — September 5, 1992 ...THE administrative autonomy scheme that the Madrid delegation is now trying to get accepted under cover of the leadership that controls the PLO is aimed at abandoning the Palestinian cause and even the PLO itself insofar as this represents a national gain. It also aims at perpetuating the occupation of Palestinian territories by giving it legitimacy...
The PFLP, DFLP and Hamas state their categorical rejection of the administrative autonomy scheme and all the measures leading towards it whether this be the formation of commissions or the organization of elections... They consider that the Palestinian delegation has not been empowered by the Palestinian people nor by any legitimate Palestinian institution to conclude agreements concerning the Palestinian people with the Zionist enemy.
The secret negotiations and dealings taking place behind the back of the Palestinian people and its living forces, and outside of any national agreement, only represent the position of a limited faction which controls the centre of Palestinian decision making...
We call for an immediate referendum of the Palestinian people both in Palestine and in exile on its national future. The united Palestinian people has the sole right to decide its own political destiny, far removed from capitulations agreed to behind its back.
In no case is it permissible to ignore the will of the great majority of the Palestinian people and impose the political choices of a narrow layer that has monopolized Palestinian decision making in the teeth of Palestinian public opinion and by hiding information and the truth from it...* Communiqué of ten Palestinian organizations, September 16, 1992 (appeal for the Palestinian general strike of September 23).* ...THE assembled organizations hereby state their position on the question of administrative autonomy:
1. We categorically reject the administrative autonomy scheme in all its details and implications as well as all the mechanisms related to it such as appointments, elections and others.
2. We state that the Palestinian delegation at the negotiations with the Zionist enemy does not represent the Palestinian people, and does not have the authority to sign any kind of agreement affecting their destiny; no agreement concluded by this delegation is in any way binding on our people.
3. We place the responsibility for accepting this proposal for surrender firmly on the leadership that controls the PLO and on the delegation.
4 ... We call for the organization of a general referendum on everything that affects the destiny of our people and its national future.
5. We call on the delegation and the leadership in control of the PLO to at once withdraw from the negotiations and cease the series of concessions...
*(The ten organizations are: the PFLP, FPPS, Hamas, the Islamic Jihad Movement - Palestine, PRCP, DFLP, PF- GC, PLF, Saika and Fatah (dissident). * Communiqué of the United Leadership of the PFLP and DFLP - October 6, 1992. ... THE United Leadership has noted that, at the moment when the intifada has gained a new impetus, confirming our people's resolve to beat back the occupation and and win its right to independence, the delegation in Madrid and Washington, under the cover of the leadership that controls the PLO is continuing on the road of concessions at the seventh round of negotiations in Washington. In the coming round it is proposing to reach an outline agreement for the application of administrative autonomy, contrary to the express will of the masses of our people who reject this proposal for surrender and wish to
This is taking place at a time when Rabin's government, supported by the United States, is stepping up its efforts on all fronts to divide the Arab ranks. and sow discord between the different Arab parts in order to weaken all and impose partial and separate solutions amounting to capitulation.
... The UL of the two Fronts calls on the masses of our people to continue and step up their mobilization to put an end to the policy of dishonorable concessions and put a stop to the administrative autonomy scheme as well as the plans for permanent settlement [of Palestinians in the Arab countries of the diaspora] and expulsion.
The dangerous extent reached by this policy threatens to have terrible effects for the national unity of our people and its cause, and requires all of us to take up our national responsibilities, to cease to turn our back on common national principles and restore the framework of national unity and unanimi-
PALESTINE / SWEDEN