The status accorded in the past to the South West Africa People's Organization, and which the Palestine Liberation Organization currently enjoyed, should also be granted to the Frente POLISARIO.

The ruling FLN has dominated Algeria's political life since independence.

If the current Palestinian leadership changes its position, there will be no problem from our side.

The Advisory Commission has a working relationship with the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

Its chief addressees were Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Arafat is Chairman of the PLO executive Committee, President of the Palestinian National Authority, Commander in chief of the Palestinian forces, and head of the Fatah movement.

The FLN (National Liberation Front) uprising against French rule in Algeria started in 1954 with assassinations of policemen.

The National Liberation Front (FLN) and sister party the National Democratic Rally won a majority of seats, defeating an Islamist alliance.

The PLO will likely gain much from Abbas s decision, because it de emphasizes the status of the PA president and raises the profile of his post as chairman of the PLO s executive committee.

On March 15, 2009, Mauricio Funes, a television figure, became the first president from the FMLN party.

The Permanent Observer of Palestine read out a message from Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority.

Letters of recognition between the PLO and Israel accompanied the agreement.

The PLO embodies Palestinian national aspirations for independence and statehood.

The PLO has succeeded in obtaining European support for a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood.

It was built to prevent Algerian FLN guerrillas from entering the French colony of Algeria from Tunisia and Morocco.

Mr. Vama has the backing of pro independence FLNKS, but is opposed by some Kanak chiefs from the South Province.

Finally, there is Nasser al Qudwa, the former PLO representative at the United Nations.

There was a time when the PLO held positions that were the same as those of Hamas. Then the PLO changed.

In May, I appointed a new Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

It took more than four decades for the PLO to recognize Israel.

The Army also fought the Syrians and the PLO during Black September in 1970.

The passing in November 2004 of the Palestinian Authority President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, represented a real challenge to the Palestinian people and institutions.

4. Acknowledges the support of the host Governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization for the Agency in the discharge of its duties

4. Acknowledges the support of the host Government and the Palestine Liberation Organization for the Agency in the discharge of its duties

Furthermore, the question of including Hamas in the Palestine Liberation Organization is crucial.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded during this meeting on 2 June 1964.

Expressing its serious concern at the continuation of hostilities by the Forces nationals de Libération Palipehutu (FNL), and at the threat they pose to civilians,

Sometimes banditry is the problem, and sometimes atrocities are perpetrated, such as the mutilations and decapitations carried out by members of the Front National de Libération (FNL).

While state building is handled by the civilian Palestinian Authority, political efforts are handled by the PLO, whose chairman, Abbas, is the head of Fatah as well as the Palestinian Authority s president.

Since Hamas was founded in the early 1980 s, it has refused to come under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Hamas is a far more convenient partner for such a settlement than the PLO.

According to its program, the government will respect all agreements signed by the PLO.

This includes the mutual recognition agreed by the PLO and Israel, as well as the Oslo Accords.

Without the resurrection of the Mecca agreement, which put Hamas and the PLO in a coalition government, Hamas cannot expect to secure its control of Gaza and the PLO cannot deliver a peace settlement with Israel.

The FLN was not powerful enough to capture a large city, such as the capital at Algiers, but Philippeville was a mid sized town and an important port city.

If he becomes Fatah s leader (and hence leader of the PA and the PLO as well), any compromise with Israel would become unimaginable.

The Badr Brigade is composed of several thousand Palestinians, mostly long time PLO activists.

PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin then sealed the agreement with a historic handshake.

Noting the appointment by the Secretary General of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority,

If Hamas comes out ahead, Abbas s allies in other Palestinian factions will press him to accept Hamas and Islamic Jihad within the PLO.

Currently, insecurity is confined to the area surrounding Bujumbura, the capital, where theForces Nationales de libération, a small radical group, continue to fight.

In February 1989, at the United Nations Security Council, the PLO representative claimed recognition by 94 states.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas), which emerged during the first Intifada in 1987, grew more powerful in the 1990 s, after the return of the PLO s Yasser Arafat and the creation, as a result of the Oslo Accords, of the Palestinian Authority.

It was Yasir Arafat, through the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) he founded, that gave them a sense of identity as a people.

Since the Oslo Accords of l993 between Israel and the PLO, the Palestinians enjoyed limited transitional autonomy.