{"id":177339,"date":"2022-05-27T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T06:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=177339"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T06:59:32","slug":"abbas-names-adviser-al-sheikh-to-lead-plo-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=177339","title":{"rendered":"Abbas Names Adviser Al-Sheikh To Lead PLO Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAMALLAH, May 27 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), named Hussein al-Sheikh, as the PLO Secretary-General yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Palestinian official said that, 62-year-old Al-Sheikh, succeeded the late PLO Secretary-General, Saeb Erekat, who died in Nov, 2020, from COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position is the second-highest rank in the PLO, which comprises seven factions, including the ruling Abbas Fatah Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Sheikh, who comes from the West Bank city of Ramallah, is close to Abbas and has been a candidate of the position since the death of Erekat, who had been leading the Palestinian team of peace negotiations with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will be in charge of contacting Israel and the United States, on issues related to resolving the Palestinian cause and the conflict with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Sheikh is also a member of the Fatah central committee and the Palestinian minister of civil affairs, which coordinates daily affairs with Israel.&#8211; NNN-WAFA  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, May 27 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), named Hussein al-Sheikh, as the PLO Secretary-General yesterday. A senior Palestinian official said that, 62-year-old Al-Sheikh, succeeded the late PLO Secretary-General, Saeb Erekat, who died in Nov, 2020, from COVID-19. The position is the second-highest rank in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177347,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177339\/revisions\/177347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}