Ammon News - President Mahmoud Abbas called today on the Arab leaders and presidents participating in the 34th Arab Summit, held in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, to adopt an Arab plan to end the war and achieve peace.

This plan would include a permanent ceasefire, the release of all hostages and prisoners, ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid, and the complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.

In his address to the summit, President Abbas said that this plan also includes enabling the State of Palestine to assume its civil and security responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, requiring Hamas to relinquish control, along with the surrender of its weapons to the legitimate authority, and the restructuring of the Palestinian security services in Gaza on professional foundations, with Arab and international assistance.

The President also called for an international conference in Cairo to finance and implement the reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, a comprehensive truce, an end to unilateral Israeli measures that violate international law, and the launch of a political process that begins and ends within a specific timeframe to implement the two-state solution, establish a Palestinian state on Palestinian soil, and achieve international recognition in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.

He further reiterated his readiness to hold presidential and legislative elections next year, as previously held, as soon as appropriate conditions are in place in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.

He also affirmed the continuation of the process of reforming state institutions and the PLO, in addition to continuing work to unify the Palestinian ranks on the basis of recognizing the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and on the basis of its political program, international legitimacy, and the principle of one system, one law and one legitimate weapon.