Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
The Palestine National Council met in Algiers, November 12-15, 1988, in its 19th Extraordinary Session, referred to as the session of the intifadah or uprising. The two documents reproduced below were adopted at that session, and have subsequently been circulated as an official document of the U.N. General Assembly, under agenda item 37, the Question of Palestine.
A number of U.N. Resolutions are referred to in the Political Communique, and some have appeared in International Legal Materials. Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) appear at 17 I.L.M. 1469 (1978), annexed to the Framework for Peace in the Middle East, concluded at Camp David. General Assembly Resolution 40/61 of 1985 appears at 25 I.L.M. 239 (1986). General Assembly Resolution 43/21 of 1988 appears in this issue at 27 I.L.M. (1988). Security Council Resolution 605 (1987) is reproduced in the Secretary-General's report in this issue at 27 I.L.M. (1988).
* [Reproduced from U.N. Document A/43/827, S/20278 of November 18, 1988, Annexes II and III. The two documents were transmitted to the Secretary-General, together with a letter from the Deputy Permanent Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United Nations, by the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations in his capacity as Chairman of the Group of Arab States for the month of November 1988, with a request to circulate them as an official document.]