RAMALLAH,
May 28, 2013 (WAFA) –The Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella group
for 13 Palestinian factions, marked Tuesday 49 years since its establishment.
The PLO was
created by a decision from an Arab summit that met in Cairo on May 28, 1964 as
a liberation movement and to represent the Palestinian people, who have become
stateless and dispersed all over the world following the creation of Israel in
1948 on their land.
Ahmad
Shuqairi was named as chairman of the PLO’s 15-person Executive Committee. However,
he was replaced in December 1967 by Yehya Hammoude following the Arab defeat in
the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Hammoude
served as acting chairman of the PLO Executive Committee until the election of
Yasser Arafat, head of Fatah, as chairman on February 1, 1969 after it became
an umbrella organization for the Palestinian resistance groups.
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