NAZARETH, December 18, 2005 (WAFA)- The Second Right of Return and Just Peace Conference affirmed the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homelands saying that this right is not "negotiable".

In a press statement followed three days conference in Nazareth city, north of Israel, the conferees expressed their complete refusal for plans that try to weaken the Right of Return and the rights of the Palestinian people for an end of the occupation, for freedom and independence.

The conference insisted on necessity to revive the memory of refugees and to draw future visions on the human, legal, public and political level, rejecting all projects that will abolish, avoid and destroy the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees.

The conference reiterated "in front of the world at large that there will be no just peace without the unconditional implementation of the Palestinian Right of Return".

Participants at the conference called upon the world public opinion to acknowledge that "an ethnic cleansing operation took place in 1948 against the Palestinian people and that this policy continues unabated until today".

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