Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية
Purpose	Executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization; Government of the State of Palestine
Chairman	Mahmoud Abbas
Membership	16 members
Parent organization	Palestinian National Council

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) is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and acts as the government of the State of Palestine.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The EC represents the organization internationally.^[4] 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 the PLO’s financial issues.^[4] The EC meets in the Palestinian territories or abroad.^[5] 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 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.^[4]

^ Abbas confirms resignation from PLO Executive Committee Archived 2015-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. The Middle East Monitor, 24 August 2015
^ Sayigh, Yezid (1999). Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 624. ISBN 9780198296430.
"The Palestinian National Council also empowered the central council to form a government-in-exile when appropriate, and the executive committee to perform the functions of government until such time as a government-in-exile was established."
^ Status of Palestine in the United Nations Archived 2015-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. UNGA Resolution A/RES/67/19, 29-11-2012
"Taking into consideration that the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in accordance with a decision by the Palestine National Council, is entrusted with the powers and responsibilities of the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine"
^ ^a ^b ^c PLO vs. PA Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Passia, September 2014
^ The PLO Executive Committee is to hold a meeting on issues related to the Middle East peace process here Saturday, Palestinian Permanent Delegate to the Cairo-based Arab League Mohamed Sobeih said today.^{[dead link]}
Palestinian President Abbas attends a PLO executive committee meeting in Ramallah Archived 2012-06-29 at archive.today

[middleeastmonitor-1] Abbas confirms resignation from PLO Executive Committee Archived 2015-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. The Middle East Monitor, 24 August 2015

[GiE-2] Sayigh, Yezid (1999). Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 624. ISBN 9780198296430.
"The Palestinian National Council also empowered the central council to form a government-in-exile when appropriate, and the executive committee to perform the functions of government until such time as a government-in-exile was established."

[UN_ARES6719-3] Status of Palestine in the United Nations Archived 2015-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. UNGA Resolution A/RES/67/19, 29-11-2012
"Taking into consideration that the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in accordance with a decision by the Palestine National Council, is entrusted with the powers and responsibilities of the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine"

[passia_plo-vs-pa-4] PLO vs. PA Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Passia, September 2014

[5] The PLO Executive Committee is to hold a meeting on issues related to the Middle East peace process here Saturday, Palestinian Permanent Delegate to the Cairo-based Arab League Mohamed Sobeih said today.^{[dead link]}
Palestinian President Abbas attends a PLO executive committee meeting in Ramallah Archived 2012-06-29 at archive.today

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