Implementing the recommendations of the Goldstone Report:

Dr Barghouti meets the Luxembourg Prime Minister.

Luxembourg: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn, the Foreign Minister and a number of European officials and solidarity groups. The meeting was part of ongoing efforts to ensure the implementation of the Goldstone Report.
  

Discussions focused on the situation inside the occupied Palestinian territories and the intransigence of the Israeli Government, symbolized by their ongoing policy of settlement expansion. Recent events in Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque are the expression of Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing in the city and their willingness to liquidate the Palestinian national cause, with particular disregard for refugee rights and ending the occupation.

Dr Barghouthi also discussed the need for endorsing the Goldstone Report and implementing its recommendations in order to ensure full respect of human rights and international humanitarian law. “All efforts,” continued Barghouti “should be focused on obtaining the largest number of affirmative votes for the Goldstone Report to be adopted at the UN Human Rights Council”.
  

During the meeting, Dr Barghouthi called for the restoration of national unity and a Palestinian democratic system, emphasizing the need to end divisions as they only benefit Israel.    

Dr Barghouthi also met with representatives from various European solidarity committees and explained to them in detail the nature of Israeli policies in continuing occupation and an Apartheid system.
  
The conferees also discussed developing plans for imposing sanctions upon Israel and enhancing boycotting actions, including goods produced in West Bank settlements. Dr Barghouti called upon European civil society to pressure their governments to end all forms of military cooperation with Israel and implement divestment initiatives in companies that benefit from the occupation.

A campaign against some of the banks that have invested money in settlement activities was also discussed to stop any financial activity that violates international law.