Green Party on Foreign Policy Party Platform

Supports a Palestinian right of return, and a single state

• We reaffirm the right and feasibility of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel.
• We acknowledge the significant challenges of equity and restitution this policy would encounter and call on the U.S. government to make resolution of these challenges a central goal of our diplomacy in the region.
• We support a U.S. foreign policy that promotes the creation of one secular, democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis on the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan as the national home of both peoples, with Jerusalem as its capital.
• We encourage a new U.S. diplomatic initiative to begin the long process of negotiation, laying the groundwork for such a single-state constitution.

Self-determination for Kurdish people

Member of the community of nations; not above it

US routinely ignores UN action toward nuclear disarmament

• A conference hosted by the government of Mexico on Feb. 14, 2014
• The US boycotted the first such conference, hosted by Norway last year.
• A new UN resolution calling for "the urgent commencement of negotiations for the early conclusion of a comprehensive convention" to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
• The US boycotted last year's UN "Open Ended Working Group" on nuclear disarmament.
• The US indefinitely postponed a conference to start negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons and WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East, mandated by the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, acting on behalf of Israel, the only nuclear weapon state in the Middle East.

Repeal US veto power at UN; and join ICC

• The U.S. must recognize and abide by the authority of the U.N. General Assembly to act in a crisis situation by passing a resolution under the Uniting for Peace Procedure when the U.N. Security Council is stalemated by vetoes.
• We seek the permanent repeal of the veto power enjoyed by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
• We urge our government to sign the International Criminal Court agreement and respect the authority of that institution.

Self-determination for both Palestinians and Israelis

We recognize that Jewish insecurity and fear of non-Jews is understandable in light of Jewish history of horrific oppression in Europe. However, we oppose as both discriminatory and ultimately self-defeating the position that Jews would be fundamentally threatened by the implementation of full rights to Palestinian-Israelis and Palestinian refugees who wish to return to their homes.

We reaffirm the right and feasibility of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel.

Suspend foreign aid to Israel while occupying territories

We demand that the U.S. government end its veto of Security Council resolutions pertaining to Israel. We urge our government to join with the U.N. to secure the withdrawal of Israel to the 1967 boundaries and to withhold its grants and loans to Israel until this withdrawal is undertaken.

We recognize the limited natural resources in Palestine-Israel and the necessity of creating an Arab/Israeli commission to negotiate the sharing of water by both nationalities.

Foster peace, economic justice, and the health of the planet

We encourage individuals to act to improve their personal well being and, at the same time, to enhance ecological balance and social harmony. We seek to join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice, and the health of the planet.

Support social and economic justice across the globe

Greens support sustainable development and social and economic justice across the globe.
• The Green Party calls for military spending to be cut by 50% over the next 10 years, with increases in spending for social programs.
• It is our belief that the massive debt owed by the Third World is causing immense misery and environmental destruction. FOREIGN AID must be addressed in the context of retiring this debt and not forcing structural adjustments via the IMF and WORLD BANK on the economies of the underdeveloped world.
• We call for a more enlightened policy on the part of INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES and their financial arms which takes into account the impact of international debt management. The US should rein in the IMF and World Bank, and demand that loans be conditional on human rights and labor rights records, social and environmental impact statements, and the providing of basic health and education.

Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments

• We encourage policies that work to assist the FORMER SOVIET UNION in its move toward a government based on rights and a more open political and economic system.
• We support peace in the MIDDLE EAST based on respect for civil liberties and human rights.
• We support the end of the economic blockade of Cuba. Unjust economic coercion by one state against another constitutes a violation of human rights.
• We believe in the core RIGHT of SELF-DETERMINATION; of the special character and needs of INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; of the essential importance of balancing economic development in the THIRD WORLD with a respect for the “old ways.”
• We endorse an EXPANDED PEACE CORPS.
• We encourage the important work of NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs), much in evidence at the United Nations “Earth Summit” in 1992 and in efforts to democratize the World Trade Organization in 2000.

Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy

• The Green Party asserts that security and liberty prosper together. HUMAN RIGHTS are the foundation of EMERGING DEMOCRACIES and international relations. We argue that the support of democracy, human rights and respect for international law should be the cornerstone of American foreign policy.
• We endorse ending support for repressive regimes. We support the right of habeas corpus being available to any person anywhere whose imprisonment violates fundamental norms of international law.
• INTERNATIONAL LAW and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS are inseparable. We do not support a world-view that relies on accommodation of tyranny or repressive regimes.
• We endorse human rights policies in regard to relations with CHINA, SOUTH AFRICA and other nations with a history of rights violations.
• As stated in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the US Green Party calls for the global adoption of basic human rights.