Palestinian declaration of independence
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence was the proclamation of the State of Palestine in 1988 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the first Intifada . It came after King Hussein severed his country's legal and administrative ties with West Bank in June 1988 and asked the PLO to fill the vacuum.
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The Declaration of Independence ( Arabic اعلان الإستقلال iʿlān al-istiqlāl ) was decided at the meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) on November 15, 1988 in Algiers ( Declaration of Algiers ). It was a unilateral proclamation of a state of Palestine by the PLO, which at that time exercised no territorial power, and was therefore primarily a symbolic act. Today's Palestinian territories are still not a sovereign state, as theydo not orgenerally recognized characteristics of states only partially meet.
The declaration of independence did not initially specify the territory of the state of Palestine, but referred to the UN partition plan and "all UN resolutions since 1947". Jerusalem was set as the capital of the State of Palestine .
Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said two days after the statement that the Federal Government regards the decisions of the Palestinian National Council as an important step. Israel announced: "The declaration is another disinformation maneuver with the aim of spreading illusions and deceiving the world public." The USA described the decisions of Algiers as "insufficient" and continued to refuse any direct contact with the PLO. The Eastern Bloc countries and many Third World countries recognized the state. At the beginning of 1989, 65 states, including Turkey as the only NATO country, had officially recognized the Palestinian state.
In an additional document, however, UN Security Council resolution 242 , and thus indirectly Israel's right to exist , was recognized. This was the condition for the US to start negotiations with the PLO.
A month later, Yasser Arafat reaffirmed the proclamation before the UN General Assembly, which, because of his entry ban into the USA, could not take place in New York but had to be moved to Geneva. The UN General Assembly took note of the proclamation of the State of Palestine , but did not change the status of the PLO, but the name of the delegation was changed to "Palestine". At that time, the UN recognized the Palestinians as a people and subject of international law , but not as a state of Palestine.
23 September 2011 applied for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , the full membership of the Territory as a state at the United Nations . With 138 states (as of 2012) a two-thirds majority of the UNO members recognize a Palestinian state.
On November 29, Abbas applied to the UN General Assembly for observer status for the State of Palestine. The majority of the meeting agreed. Since then, the State of Palestine has had a permanent mission to the United Nations, which emerged from the PLO delegation, and has extended rights than before it was granted observer status. In addition, the United Nations has since spoken of a state of Palestine.
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The National Council declared independence in the document with the following sentence:
- Based on the natural, historical and legal right of the Palestinian people to Palestine, their homeland, referring to the victims of previous generations who defended the freedom and independence of their homeland, based on the resolutions of the Arab summits and the authority of international law In the form of the resolutions of the United Nations since 1947, while exercising the rights of the Palestinian-Arab people to self-determination, political independence and unlimited sovereignty over their territory, the National Council proclaims the establishment of the state in the name of God and in the name of the Palestinian-Arab people Palestine on Palestinian territory with Jerusalem as its capital.
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- ↑ Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine (German; PDF; 46 kB)
- ↑ Foreign Office, press release No. 1227/88, November 17, 1988
- ↑ Additional political declaration to the Declaration of Independence ( memento of the original from June 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Resolution 43/177 of the 82nd UN General Assembly of December 15, 1988 (English)
