Ahmed Qurei

Ahmad Qurai (Arabic أحمد قريع, DMG Aḥmad Qurai ʿ ), Ahmed spa ( born March 26, 1937 in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, at that time the League of Nations Mandate of Palestine ) was from September 2003 to January 2006 Prime Minister of the Palestinian territories. He is also known as Abu Ala ( أبو علاء / Abū ʿ Alā ʾ ).

Life

Qurai is a member of Fatah since 1968. He has held a leading position in the PLO headquarters in Beirut. After expulsion of the PLO from Beirut in 1982 he was with Yasir Arafat in exile in Tunisia.

1989 Qurai was elected to the Central Committee of Fatah; after disagreements with Arafat in 1994, he joined as head of department for economic affairs back in the Palestinian exile representation and he returned to Palestine.

Several secret negotiations with Israel ( uA Oslo 1993). The so-called " Oslo Talks" he prepared in London with the moderate Israeli professor Yair Hirschfeld.

He was elected President of the Parliament in 1996.

In February 2003, he denied secret armistice negotiations with Ariel Sharon.

Qurai adopted on 10 September 2003 at the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister. He passed on 17 July 2004 in his resignation after French engineer and Palestinian security officials in Gaza have been taken hostage. His resignation was rejected by Yasser Arafat. After Arafat's death, he was again Prime Minister under the new chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. Ahmad Qurai is considered moderate representative of his country. On 26 January 2006, he resigned from his post as Hamas in the parliamentary elections won an absolute majority of seats.

See also: Israeli-Palestinian conflict ( chronology )

Mahmoud Abbas | Ahmad Qurai | Ismail Haniyya | Salam Fayyad | Rami Hamdallah

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