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Palestine Liberation Organization

(PLO; Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyah), the group uniting the majority of organizations in the Palestinian resistance movement, a movement struggling to secure the legitimate rights of the Arab people of Palestine. Created in 1964, the PLO was recognized as the only legal representative of the Arab people of Palestine at the conference of Arab heads of state in Algiers (November 1973) and at a number of other conferences and meetings. It has observer status at the United Nations and is a member of the Arab League. There are PLO bureaus in almost all Arab countries and in a number of countries in Europe and Asia. Armed forces of the Palestinian resistance movement are stationed in Lebanon, Syria, and other Arab countries.

The supreme body of the PLO is the Palestine National Council (PNC), which usually convenes once a year. Sessions of the PNC elect the executive committee of the PLO to provide political and organizational leadership for the PLO’s activities between sessions. Yasir Arafat has been chairman of the executive committee since February 1969.

The main information organs of the PLO are the Palestine Information Agency (WAFA) and the weekly Filastin al-Thawrah (Palestine Revolution). [18–1424–2; updated]

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