Fatah official: Oslo gave us PA, international recognition; otherwise revolution would have ended in exile
Official PA TV program The PLO – The Rows of Documents, on the Palestinian declaration of independence, hosting Palestinian National Council member and Fatah Central Committee member Rawhi Fattouh
Palestinian National Council member and Fatah Central Committee member Rawhi Fattouh: “Of course there are certainly many criticisms of the Oslo Accords, but the Oslo Accords led to our [the PLO’s] current presence in the Palestinian land after we were in exile. In fact, if it hand’t been for these accords the Palestinian revolution would have ended in the exile. We came and returned to the homeland and now we have a [Palestinian] Authority, government, and political regime. We are looking ahead, and at the same time we have become a UN observer state, and this is a great accomplishment… We say that we in our homeland, those who returned – and just those who returned after the Oslo [Accords] – are over 1 million people; they are over 1 million people, over 1 million Palestinian citizens."
Rawhi Fattouh also holds the following positions: head of the Palestinian National Council’s Parliamentary Relations Committee and Fatah Commissioner of International Relations.