Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, is the President of the Palestinian National Authority, a cofounder of Fatah, and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. His standing improved dramatically after he submitted Palestine’s bid for statehood at the UNGA and gained membership to UNESCO.
Politics:
President Abbas is one of the few surviving founder members of Fatah – the main political grouping within the PLO. He has always been committed to pursuing an independent Palestinian state through negotiations and was one of the principal architects of the Oslo peace process. He accompanied Yassir Arafat to the White House to sign the Oslo Accords.
Problems and Statehood Bid
Abbas’s has faced many internal and external problems but has managed to come through largely unscathed. After seeing that years of peace negotiations were leading to nothing but the relentless growth of illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, President Abbas chose to look for an alternative strategy: submitting a statehood bid at the UN.
<em>Caption: In this handout image supplied by the Palestinian President's Office (PPO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt on September 26, 2012 in New York City. (Thaer ...
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Has said: ‘We Palestinians have always been at the heart of the movement of Arab peoples aspiring to freedom … We have always been committed to democratic traditions, respected pluralism and the freedom of opinion and expression, and this has long been a source of pride for us and a source of inspiration for our brothers from other Arab nations’.
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