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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK
Possibility for Peace: Palestinian PM Appointment
Aired April 29, 2003 - 06:17 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: I apologize, we're going to break away from this story right now to head back to Ramallah and the West Bank. Abu Mazen, the Palestinian Prime Minister-designate speaking now right after Yasser Arafat.
Let's listen.
ABU MAZEN, PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE (through translator): ... of our people and the terms of reverence for the -- for the cabinet, the members of which are part and parcel of the national council and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
In this place I start my a pleasing (ph) a greeting of reverence to all our Palestinian people in all cities, refugee camps and villages in the homeland and in exiles. Our Palestinian steadfasting people, struggling people who are -- we are very proud to belong to and we are very proud of their sacrifices -- continued sacrifices of many (ph) generations that have been many fisted (ph) and hundreds of thousands of martyrs injured and arrested and protected their precious (ph) identity, despite all efforts to create (ph) that identity and protected their inalienable rights and establish their national authority on the ground as a beginning for the establishment of the independent Palestinian state with whole Jerusalem as its capital with the will of God.
Our Palestinian people who stood against the Israeli occupation over the last two-and-a-half years of intifada, despite the killing and destruction in Jenin and the refugee camp and Nablus, Calpalia (ph), Hebron and all our cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank and Rafa (ph) and Eunice (ph), Gaza, Derabellahab (ph), Hanon (ph), Jabalia (ph) and all areas in our brave Gaza Strip. I mention here in particular families who sacrificed their sons, who were killed or injured or detained and suffered personally in addition to taken (ph) part with the whole people in the general suffering of the people.
Any achievement, any Palestinian achievement, any Palestinian national achievement, that should belong to the sacrifices of these brave people and the sacrifices of their families, their people and their homeland. This creative people that are full of energies and potential have become, in the eyes of the whole world, deserves a state -- a sovereign state just like all other people and states. A modern democratic state that becomes the secure home for Palestinians and become a partner in consolidating peace and stability in the whole region, which I see part of our responsibilities to continue laying the foundations of this state, including the preparation for a presidential parliamentarian and local council elections based on our election law, which we hope that your esteemed council will endorse as soon as possible.
Dear Mr. President, brothers and sisters, the source of -- the source of our suffering and the source of our continued pain in our life is the occupation and its (UNINTELLIGIBLE). The -- our national message that we stick to all together is ending to be -- occupation...
COSTELLO: All right, we're going to jump away from this. That was Abu Mazen the Palestinian Prime Minister-designate. Still hasn't been voted on by the Palestinian Parliament. Hopefully he will be soon. U.S. officials had hoped during this process that Yasser Arafat would fade into the background, something he's certainly not done this morning.
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