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Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), dismissed today false reports regarding the health condition of President Mahmoud Abbas. “Reports circulated by the yellow press regarding the health condition of Mr. President Mahmoud Abbas are false,” said Al-Sheikh in a tweet. Al-Sheikh described these reports “are aimed at destabilizing the internal Palestinian situation,” adding that the President was “in good condition and doing his work...
President Mahmoud Abbas today named Hussein Al-Sheikh secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee. Al-Sheikh has served as the Minister of Civil Affairs and member of Fatah Central Committee. The position was previously held by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, and had remained vacant since his death of COVID-19 in November 2020.
The Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Minister Hussein al-Sheikh, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his deputy, Mr. Mikhail Bogdanov. During the talks, which took place today, Tuesday, in the Russian capital, Moscow, the two parties exchanged views on the current situation in the Middle East, with a focus on the prospects for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement. They also raised prospects of...
Member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, Hussein AlSheikh, stressed that the instructions of the Israeli Prime minister, Naftali Bennett, to his army to operate without restrictions and to be unleashed in the West Bank are a call for murder and abuse. “We call on the international community with all its institutions to deter this disorder and place pressure to stop it,” he said in a tweet.
Hussein al-Sheikh, member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and Fatah’s Central Committee, discussed today during a meeting in Ramallah with US envoy Hady Amr several files, including bilateral relations and issues related to the situation with Israel as well as regional and international issues. The PLO official discussed the credibility of the international community, which he stressed is at stake, adding that “international legitimacy should not be divided...