1. The Council strongly condemns and denounces the treacherous Israeli aggression on Syria's airspace and territories on 5th October 2003.
2. The Council expresses its firm conviction that the recent aggression against Syria and the endorsement of Syria's Accountability Act by the American House of Representatives are two faces of a joint American - Israeli scheme which aims at pressuring Syria with a view to making it give up its principled stands in defending its pan-Arab constants and compelling it to succumb to American and Israeli policies and instructions which fully contradict the interests of the Arab nations as a whole.
3. The Council stresses its absolute solidarity with sisterly Syria in confronting the American and Israeli threats, and expresses its appreciation for Syria's principled stands and her endeavors to establish a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East in accordance with the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, specially resolutions No. 194, 242, 338, 425, the land-for-peace principle and the Madrid terms of reference , as well as the initiative launched by the Beirut Arab Summit 2002 . the Council also supports Syria's stand on the right side of combating terrorism at the international level, specially against the systematic state terrorism practiced by Israel.
4. The Council confirms Syria's legitimate right in defending herself and protecting her territories and borders with all means available.
5. The Council vehemently denounces the endorsement of Syria's Accountability Act by the American House of Representative, and considers such a step taken by the American Congress a flagrant intervention in the internal affair of Syria as well as -a flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions and a great damage inflicted on the development of relations between the United States and Syria in particular, and Arab-American relations in general. The Council , therefore, calls on the American administration to reject the Syria Accountability Act as a step to preserve US relations with Arab countries.
6. The Council strongly denounces the behavior of the American Congress which, in this case, runs contrary to all Parliamentary rules and values, and constitutes a dangerous phenomenon which allows superpowers to pass legislations and acts that affect sovereign states outside the national capacity of these superpowers.
7. The Council calls Arab governments and states to support Syria and show full solidarity with it in confronting Israeli acts of aggression and American threats and pressures. The Council also calls Arab Countries to give top priority to building a resisting and deterrent balance which compels the enemies of the Arab nation to reconsider their calculations before thinking of launching a new act of aggression.
8. The Council strongly denounces the American absolute biased stand towards Israel and defending Israel's aggression against Syria as well as providing a political cover for such aggression. The Council also deplores the use of the American veto to block any attempt to condemn Israel in the UN Security Council during the discussion of recent Israeli aggression against Israel.
9. The Council calls Arab governments, organizations and bodies to consolidate their support to Syria and to agree on a unified strategy and concrete practices to reflect this support in practice and to mobilize Arab masses in their countries in solidarity with Syria.
10. The Council supports the draft resolution submitted by Syria to the UN Security Council to render the Middle East region free from all weapons of mass destruction. The council also considers this draft resolution, which reflects the Arab stand on this issue, the only formula suitable to achieve this target, specially the need to open Israeli nuclear installations for international inspection. The council also rejects all unjust American charges against Syria.
11. The Council authorizes the presidency of the Union and its General Secretariat to launch a quick parliamentary , political and media campaign at both regional and international levels and through a diversity of means to confront American and Zionist media campaigns, and to particularly concentrate on clarifying the reality of Arab rights and the objectives of the Israeli aggression as well as to talk to US politicians , parties , societies , thinkers and intellectuals with a view of providing a real and undistorted viewpoint to the American people. The Council also calls for discussing the act of aggression against Syria and the American threats against her, and the dangerous repercussions of such threats on the situation in the region and World peace and security during the sessions of the coming conference of the Inter - Parliamentary Union.
12. The Council calls upon regional and international organizations as well as all parliamentarians to express their condemnation of the Israeli aggression against Syria and Syria's Accountability Act - and calls them to urge their governments to take such stands as to deter Israel from launching a similar act of aggression.
13. The Council calls for stopping all forms of normalization with Israel, and the full implementation of a complete boycott against Israel, and reactivating all the means of this boycott until Israel complies with the world legitimacy resolutions.
(The Jordanian delegation expressed its reservation over this item)
14. The Council lauds those popular initiatives which express the anger of the Arab public opinion towards American hostile polices, specially those initiatives which manifested themselves in boycotting American commodities and companies. The Council supports such initiatives and calls for activating them.
15. The Council lauds the stands taken by the European Union and those adopted by all countries supporting Arab rights as well as those stands adopted by all international organizations and bodies which condemned and denounced the Israeli aggression against Syria and Syria's Accountability Act endorsed by the American Congress. The Council calls all those who care for world peace and security to redouble their efforts with a view to guaranteeing stability and preventing more tension and wars.
16. The Council expresses concern over Israel's continued violations of Lebanese airspace, territories and territorial waters, and denounces the American continued intervention which aims at preventing the world community from playing its role in defusing the continuous tension resulting from these violations.
17. The Council condemns and denounces the discussion of the situation in Lebanon by the American House of Representatives and Senate while Lebanon is a sovereign state, because such a discussion sounds as if Lebanon has lost its competence and constitutional authority. It also constitutes a violation of the sovereignty of this Arab country which is a member-state in the United Nations.

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1. The Council extends a greeting of pride and esteem to the heroic Intifada of the Palestinian people which entered its forth year with more determination to continue resistance and commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to repatriation, the liberation of their lands and the establishment of a sovereign independent state with Jerusalem as its capital on the Palestinian laud.
2. The council greets all Palestinian militants who continue their resistance against Israeli occupation with determination and self-denial. The council reiterates its support for their struggle and asks God to bless the souls of martyrs whose blood watered the land of Palestine, and who showed heroic epics in defending their homeland and the rights of their people.
3. The council denounces the savage crimes, massacres, acts of suppression and terrorism and the grave violations of human rights practiced by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in all tcities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These crimes has manifested themselves in the acts of assassination against Palestinian militants, activists, and political leaders, the killing of hundreds of innocent citizens: women, children, and old people, the demolishing of houses, the shoveling of land, arrest campaigns, the continued building of the security wall, the continued building of settlements and their expansion. They are also manifested in the violation of all agreements and understandings which have been reached with the Palestine National Authority, and the burying of all regional and international sincere efforts which aim at reaching a peaceful solution for the Middle East conflict, foremost amongst which being the peace process which came as a result of the Madrid peace conference and the initiative launched by the Beirut Arab Summit.
4. The council strongly condemns the recent decision taken by the Israeli government of 10/9/2003 to deport president Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian liberation Organization and chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, who has been legally elected by the Palestinian people. The council considers this decision a dangerous escalation of the crisis prevailing in the region and a desperate step to find a way out of the political dilemma resulting from the policies pursued by the Sharon government after the failure of all its schemes which are built on suppression and terrorism with a view to compelling the Palestinian people to surrender and succumb.
5. The Council expresses its conviction that the only way to establish security and peace in the region lies in the full and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied Palestinian and Arab countries in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan to the 4^th June borders of 1967, as well as from the Lebanese Shabaa farms, recognition of the inalienable Palestinian rights, specially the right of repatriation, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent and fully sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with the world legitimacy resolutions 181-194-242-338 the land -for-peace principle as well as on the basis of the rules of the Madrid peace conference of 1991.
6. The Council calls the world community and the UN Security Council to put pressure on Israel to stop the comprehensive annihilation war it launches against the Arab Palestine People and to provide international protection for them. In this regards, the Council, stresses the importance of the role of international observers and compelling Israel to honour the 4^th Geneva convention and all international resolutions, specially releasing Palestinian prisoners of war and detainees, and the genuine implementation of the related UN resolutions according to the 7^th paragraph of the UN Charter in order to prevent the spread of the double-standard policy and rejecting the situation where Israel remains above all world legitimacy and international law.
7. The council calls all Arab countries, governments, peoples and institutions, to provide all forms of political, moral and material support for the Palestinian people in support of their blessed Intifada and courageous resistance.

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1. The council reiterates its full solidarity and deep sympathy with the brotherly Iraqi people and expresses deep concern over the deterioration of the situation in Iraq. The council holds the American and British occupation forces responsible for this deterioration.
2. The council reiterates the resolution of its 43^rd ordinary session held in Beirut (June 2003) on the importance of the role the UN could play in the political process in Iraq, specially in issues like ending this occupation, election of the legitimate representatives of the Iraqi people, the formation of an independent government, and consolidating the stability of Iraq and its reconstruction provided that the Arab League, specially Iraq's Arab neighboring countries, should be given the greater role in contributing , after the end of occupation, to the shaping of a unified Iraq, people and land, within the framework of its Arab environment and cooperation with those to be elected by the Iraqi people as their representatives. The Council also calls the united Nations and all humanitarian organizations to intervene so quickly and put pressure on Washington and London to refer the Iraqi question to the United Nations and to find a quick political settlement that would guarantee the ending of occupation, restoration of the sovereignty and independence of Iraq, achievement of Democracy, and guaranteeing Iraq's right in its wealth.
3. The council calls all the groups of the Iraqi people to consolidate their national unity and confront all attempts aiming at sowing the seeds of dispute amongst the components of the Iraqi people.

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1. the Council stresses its firm conviction in the unity of objectives, destiny and common interests of all Arab countries as well as in the need to unify, through genuine efforts, the ranks of the Arab nation and to mobilize all its potentialities on the basis of cooperation, equity and mutual respect between Arab countries and Arab people as well as on the basis of joint defense of its national issues and holy shrines.
2. The Council stresses the fact that dealing with Arab situations and confronting imminent challenges and dangers requires a unified Arab stand which stems from a joint vision and relies on an active Arab solidarity capable of providing the requirements of steadfastness and confrontation.
3. The Council confirms the close connection between the future of national security of each Arab country, on the one hand, and the future of pan-Arab security, on the other in a world where no Arab country can individually avoid the threats against the Arab nation.
4. The Council stresses the fact that interest in the national security of the Arab nation should be given, during the current circumstances, top priority in all the activities and moves of Arab leaders, Arab governments, and Arab organizations at all levels and in all fields.
5. The Council has decides to send a cable to His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic, as an expression of solidarity on the part of Arab parliamentarians with sisterly Syria and as an appreciation of the sponsoring of His Excellency the session of their Council. The Council also thanks the Syrian People's Assembly for its hospitality.
6. The Council expresses its appreciation and thanks to the Secretary General of the Union and the Secretariat members for the good efforts they exerted in the organization of this session.

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