Cairo Agreement (1969)

The Cairo Agreement was an agreement on 2 November 1969 which was made ​​during talks between Yassir Arafat and the Lebanese army commander General Emile Bustani. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser is said to have helped in bringing about.

Content

Although never a text was published, an unofficial text An-Nahar published in the Lebanese newspaper on 20 April 1970. The agreement acknowledged Palestinian militiamen more rights in Lebanon.

Part of the agreement concerned 16 UNWRA-L ager in Lebanon - home to 300,000 Palestinian refugees. These were the jurisdiction of the Maronite -dominated army intelligence Deuxième Bureau revoked and the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command the military high command of the PLO assumed. Officially, the camp were further Lebanese sovereignty, from 1969 they were the basis for the guerrilla movement.

The agreement granted the Palestinians also have the right to join the armed struggle Moreover, it allowed them to attack Israel from Lebanon and to exercise dominion violence in the camps

Then created the PLO de facto a "state within a state" " in Lebanon.

Consequences

In the early 1970s, the Palestinian influence in Lebanon grew, especially after the Black September (Jordan) in September 1970.

The Lebanese army could not prevent this, because she was too weak. In April 1975, the Lebanese civil war broke out. The first fighting took place from between the PLO and the Christians. Later, the Lebanese National Movement took part on the side of the PLO in the fighting. The right-wing Maronite President Suleiman Frangieh call Syria to help. The PLO tens back to the South and led by Guerrillaaktionen against Israel. 1978 Israel invaded Lebanon in a

Further escalations led to Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

Taking back

In June 1987, the Lebanese President Amine Gemayel signed a law that abolished the Cairo Agreement. The law was the Lebanese Parliament on 21 May 1987 adopted Prime Minister Salim El Hoss, signed it later.