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14-790: The PCC serves as the intermediary body between the PNC and the EC. The PCC is chaired by the PNC chairman, and has increasingly eclipsed the PNC as the main decision-making body of the PLO. In 2018, the PNC transferred its legislative powers to the PCC, including powers to elect members of the EC. The PCC is elected by the PNC after nomination by the PLO Executive and chaired by the PNC president. The membership has risen from 42 (1976), 55 (1977), 72 (1984), 107 (early 90s), 95 (mid-90s) to 124 (1996). As of April 1996,

28-816: A degree in public administration from the American University of Beirut in 1965. He was a member of the General Union of Palestinian Students during his university studies. His political career began in Beirut when he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement . Abdul Rahman completed his Ph.D. studies in 1973 and obtained a Ph.D. degree from University of Calgary , Canada. His thesis is entitled Military bureaucracy, politics and society in Egypt: The era of Nasir . Abdul Rahman

42-716: A full professor in 1984. Abdul Rahman later left the PFLP and became an independent member of the PLO's executive committee. He was in charge of refugee affairs and also, headed the Palestine Authority 's Higher Council for Refugee Camps until his resignation in July 2000. His tenure at the executive committee ended in May 2018. Abdul Rahman published several studies on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . His articles on

56-593: A national government. Besides other functions, the executive committee is involved in the nomination of candidates for the PNC, and when elections to the PNC are not feasible, the executive committee may appoint PNC members. Ahmad Al-Shuqeiry was the first Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee elected by the Palestinian National Council in 1964, and was succeeded in 1967 by Yahya Hammuda . In February 1969, Yasser Arafat

70-702: Is one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was made a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1969. He worked as a researcher at the Palestine Research Center in Beirut between 1966 and 1967 and then, headed its research section between 1968 and 1970. After his Ph.D. studies he continued to work at the center as a research consultant from 1973 to 1974. He joined Kuwait University as an assistant professor in political science in 1974 becoming

84-765: Is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and acts as the government of the State of Palestine . The EC represents the organization internationally. It represents the Palestinian people, supervises the various PLO bodies, executes the policies and decisions set of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) and the Palestinian Central Council , and handles

98-916: The PCC consisted of 124 members from the PLO Executive Committee, PNC, PLC and other Palestinian organizations. On 5 January 2013, it was announced that the PLO had delegated the duties of the Palestinian Authority’s government and parliament to the Central Council. Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO EC ) ( Arabic : اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية , romanized :  al-Lajnah al-Tanfīdhīyah li-Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah )

112-724: The PLO’s financial issues. The EC meets in the Palestinian territories or abroad. The head of the EC (executive committee) is the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee (sometimes called President), elected by the PNC. Mahmoud Abbas has been the chairman since the death of Yasser Arafat in November 2004. Executive committee members hold special areas of responsibility, such as military matters, foreign affairs, finance and social affairs, making their role similar to that of ministers in

126-551: The Palestinian National Council and the Palestinian Authority. On 24 August 2015, Abbas said that he had resigned from the PLO’s executive committee along with ten other members, though their resignations were subject to approval by the Palestinian National Council. The executive committee members who announced their resignation were to continue to hold their positions until the PNC meeting in April 2018. One of them

140-475: The Palestinian National Council, often as representatives of the PLO member factions . The head of the EC is the chairman, who since 2004 has been Mahmoud Abbas. On 27 August 2009, the PNC elected six new members to the EC to replace members who had died (including Yasser Arafat) since the last plenary PNC meeting in 1996. The vote took place in an extraordinary meeting, due to lack of the requisite PNC quorum. Among

154-557: The six elected were Ahmad Qurei and Hanan Ashrawi . Some Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, boycotted the PNC meeting. They called the PLO illegal and illegitimate, because they and other Palestinian factions were not represented in the organization, and was a violation of the Cairo and Mecca agreements and the National Conciliation Document , which envisioned simultaneous elections for

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168-649: The topic were also featured in the Pakistani newspaper The Nation . He was one of the participants of the United Nations 's first seminar on the question of Palestine which was held in Arusha , Tanzania, between 14 July and 18 July 1980. At the conference Rashid Hamid and he presented a paper entitled "The Palestine Liberation Organization: Past, Present and Future". Abdul Rahman lives in Jordan and serves as

182-664: Was Asad Abdul Rahman . The current members of the Executive Committee as of 7 November 2023 are: Asad Abdul Rahman Asad Abdul Rahman (born 1944) is a Palestinian political scientist, academic and politician who was a long-term member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Council . Abdul Rahman was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in 1944. He obtained

196-510: Was appointed leader of the PLO. He continued to be PLO leader (sometimes called chairman, sometimes president) until his death in November 2004. The EC appointed Mahmoud Abbas chairman within hours of Arafat's death. The quorum for legitimate decisions is 12 of the 18 members, according to the Palestinian National Covenant , the constitution of the PLO. The executive committee currently has 16 members, elected by

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