The factions of the national movement in the city of Jerusalem held a meeting in which they discussed the political situation in light of the recent Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in Taba and assessed these negotiations in their various aspects:
 

1. After ten years of futile negotiations with the Israelis, the Palestinian Intifada is the strategic option of the Palestinian people towards achieving national independence and the establishment of the Palestinian state.
2. The Palestinian national movement factions in the city of Jerusalem stress on the continuation of the Palestinian popular Intifada and does not object to the principle of negotiations if they are conducted on new basis and principles, to which the Intifada has provided an appropriate climate, mainly a new framework for the settlement with the participation of the UN, the EU, Russia and China to break the US monopoly on this settlement.
3. The Palestinian national movement factions in the city of Jerusalem declare that Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state, thus rejecting any negotiation formula leading to accepting Israeli settlements in Jerusalem city, or any form of Israeli sovereignty or control on any part of Arab Jerusalem; the factions also reject any Israeli attempt that seeks to keep Israeli occupation on Jerusalem under any sovereignty naming, such as the so called Holy Basin or the Jewish Quarter or the Buraq Wall; we declare that free access to all holy sites to all religions is a right that is guaranteed by the Palestinian state.
4. The Palestinian national movement factions affirm the importance of implementing international legitimacy resolution 194 in a manner that guarantees the return of the Palestinian people to their homes, lands and properties from which they were evicted and that this is a sacred right and cannot be yielded.
5. The Palestinian national movement factions in the city of Jerusalem affirm that a just and comprehensive peace must lead to the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories and the return of these territories to the Palestinian and Arab sovereignty according to international legitimacy resolutions 242 and 338.
6. The Palestinian national movement factions stress that the basic condition to achieve peace is to have negotiations that lead to establishing an independent Palestinian state on all the territories of the June 4 borders with all the lands and what is underneath them and their skies and their air space and electromagnetic space and water resources.