Everything about Palestinian National Congress totally explained
The
Palestinian National Council (PNC) is the legislative body of the
Palestine Liberation Organization and elects its Central Committee, which assumes leadership of the organization between its sessions. The Council normally meets every two years. Resolutions are passed by a simple majority with a quorum of two-thirds.
The first PNC, composed of 422 representatives, met in
Jerusalem in May 1964 and adopted the
Palestinian National Covenant (also called Palestinian National Charter). It also established the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the political expression of the Palestinian people and elected
Ahmad Al-Shuqeiry as the first chairman of the PLO Executive Committee. At the conference were representatives from Palestinian communities in
Jordan,
West Bank, the
Gaza strip,
Syria,
Lebanon,
Kuwait,
Iraq,
Egypt,
Qatar,
Libya, and
Algeria.
Subsequent sessions were held in
Cairo (1965), Gaza (1966), Cairo (1968 – 1977),
Damascus (1979 – 1981), Algiers (1983),
Amman (1984), and Gaza (1996 and 1998).
At the February
1969 meeting in Cairo,
Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO. He continued to be PLO leader (sometimes called Chairman, sometimes President) until his death in 2004.
In a November
1988 meeting in
Algiers, the PNC unilaterally declared the independence of the Arab State of Palestine.
After the signing of the
Oslo Accords, the PNC met in
Gaza in April
1996 and voted 504 to 54 to void parts of the
Palestinian National Covenant that denied
Israel's right to exist, but the charter itself wasn't been formally changed or re-drafted. One its most prominent members, the
Palestinian-American scholar and activist
Edward Said, left the PNC because he believed that the
Oslo Accords sold short the right of
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in pre-
1967 Israel.
In December
1998, the PNC met in
Gaza at the insistence of the
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who called it a condition on the continuation of the
peace process. In the presence of the
US President
Clinton, it reaffirmed again the annulling of the parts of the Covenant which denied Israel's right to exist, but it still didn't formally change or re-draft the Covenant.
As of 2003, the PNC is chaired by
Salim Zanoun and has 669 members; 88 are from the
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), 98 represent the Palestinian population living in the
West Bank and
Gaza Strip, and 483 represent the
Palestinian diaspora.
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