Resolution of the East Turkestan National
Congress
The Congress of the ETNC meeting in Brussels on
Thursday and Friday, 17 and 18 of October, 2001,
A. strongly condemning the terrorist attack
of 11 September on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon and
terrorism and extremism in any forms;
B. expressing, on behalf of the Uyghur
communities around the world, its deepest condolences to the USA
government, to the families of the victims;
C. denouncing these tragic and criminal acts
and their exploitation made by the Chinese communist authorities to
their own advantage in order to strengthen the crackdown on any form
of dissent in East Turkestan by portraying Uyghurs as Islamic
terrorists, and by equating any request for the respect of basic
human rights and determine their own future as an expressing
extremism and terrorism;
D. stressing the fact that the Uyghur people
are struggling for over 50 years for their freedom and
self-determination and recalling that this struggle has nothing to
do with transnational terrorism;
E. condemning the policy of State terrorism
conducted by Beijing in East Turkestan that suppresses any form of
dissent and severely punishes Uyghur people for expressing their
political, religious, historical or cultural views;
1. recalls that the primary goal of the East
Turkestan National Congress and of the Uyghur Communities around the
world is to end the illegal occupation of East Turkestan by the
People's Republic of China and to implement the right to
self-determination in accordance with the principles of democracy
and secularism;
2. calls on the International community in
general and on the European Union in particular to seriously address
the tragic situation of the Uyghur People who, like the Tibetan
People, suffer the dramatic effects of the Chinese policy of
genocide by population transfer since the Chinese invasion and harsh
occupation of East Turkestan
3. calls on the European Union and all
democratic government to do their utmost to persuade Beijing to
immediately open political negotiations with the representatives of
the Uyghur people, including the East Turkestan National Congress,
with the aim of ensuring the implementation of the basic human
rights of the people of East Turkestan and to permit them to
determine their own future;
4. calls for the creation of a development
aid program to be administered by the ETNC for the development
educational, cultural, buisiness and social projects in Uyghur
communities of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan)
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