1964

Jan .1st Arab league summit (Cairo) decides to work “ to organize the Palestinian people and to enable them to take their role in the iberation of their homeland and self-determination.”

May 28: 1st Palestinian Conference (Jerusalem) establishes the PLO, adopts the National Charter, and forms the PNC. Mejid Shoman Chairman of the Palestine National Fund

1965

May 31- June 4: 2nd PNC session (Cairo).

1966

May 20-24: 3rd PNC session (Gaza).

1967

Dec. 24: Shukairy reigns as Chairman; replaced by Yahy Hamoudeh

1968

July 10-17: 4th PNC session (Cairo): Abdel Mohsen Qattan is elected as speaker; the Charter is amended to stress the PLO role in the struggle to Liberate Palestine

1969

Feb. 1-4: 5th PNC session (Cairo): Yasser Arafat is elected PLO Chairman; Fteh becomes the dominant faction.

Sept. 1-6: 6th PNC session (Cairo): membership now at 112.

1970

May 30-June 4: 7th PNC Projects the Rogers initiative. That year, the PLO becomes an observer in the Non-Aligned Movement.

1971

Feb.28: 8th PNC (Cairo) establishes a Unified General Command of the forces of the Palestinian revolution; appoints Arafat as its Commander.

July 7-13: 9th PNC (Cairo): now 155 members.

1972

April 6-10: 10th PNC (Cairo) rejects King Hussein’s United Arab Kingdom Plan.

1973

An. 1-12: 11th PNC (Cairo) establishes the Palestinian National Salvation Front (to coordinate the resistance in the OPT) and the Central Council (as an intermediary between the PNC and the Executive Committee).

June 1-8: 12th PNC adopts 10-Point Program (dropping the concept of a state in all of Palestine); some PLO factions from the ‘Rejectionist Front ’ in protest.

1974

Oct: Arab League (Rabat) recognizes the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian People.

Nov. 13: PLO Chairman Arafat addresses the UNGA plenary for the first time.

Nov. 22: UN grants the PLO observer status.

1976

The PLO attains full membership in the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab League.

1981

April 11-19: 15th PNC (Damascus) approves contacts with Jews by the Committee for the Occupied Homeland.

1983

Feb. 14-21: 16th PNC (Algiers_) discusses the Reagan, Plan, Fez Plan, and ties with Egypt and Jordan.

1984

Nov. 22-29: most member factions boycott 17th PNC (Amman) but a quorum reaffirms support for Arafat as PLO Chairman.

1987

April 20-26: 18th PNC (Algiers) endorses the idea of a UN-sponsored Middle East Conference with the participation of the permanent members of the UNSC as well as the concerned parties.

1988

Nov. 12-15: 19th PNC (Algiers) endorses UN Res. 242, and proclaims Palestinian Independence.

1989

PLO becomes ‘ State of Palestine’ at the Arab League.

1991

Sept. 23-28: 20th PNC (Algiers) paves the way for the Palestinian delegation to participate in the Middle East Peace Conference, based on the ‘Land for peace’ principle and UN Res. 242 and 338.

1993

Oct. 10-12: The PLO Central Council votes to accept the DoP and asks the Executive Committee to form the PA for the transitional period.

1996

April 21-24: 21thPNC (Gaza) votes with 504-54 and 14 abstentions to abrogate the provisions of the PLO Charter “ that are country too the exchange letters between the PLO and the Government of Israel of 9 and 19 Sept. 1993”

1999

April 27: The PLO Central Council convenes in Gaza to discuss the expiry of the DoP and the issue of Palestinian statehood proposed for 4 May 1999.