San Antonio Express News · San Antonio, Texas · 28 May 1994
CP-1994-005
Constitution draft refers to Jerusalem as Palestine capital
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — A constitution for the Palestinian governing council — drafted by senior PLO figures — declares Jerusalem the capital of a future state of Palestine, a move likely to further upset PLO-Israel relations.
Sources close to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the newspaper Haaretz that the document was the ‘most serious violation of the Gaza-Jericho (autonomy) agreement to date.’ The PLO’s London-based legal committee faxed a copy of the 21-page draft to the Associated Press in Jerusalem on Friday.
Article 5, on the first page, unequivocally declares Jerusalem as ‘the capital of Palestine.’
It adds that ‘during the transitional period, the Palestinian authorities may set up the Government Headquarters in any other place in Palestine.’… ‘Just as the Israelis have repeatedly declared Jerusalem their own eternal capital, we have the right to declare it our own capital,’ the PLO legal committee’s chairman, Anis Qassem, said by telephone from London… Rabin is adamant about maintaining Israeli sovereignty over Arab-populated east Jerusalem, which was captured in the 1967 war, and is said to be considering banning a visit by Arafat to the city’s Islamic holy sites.”
Context added by this archive
The pull-quote on the page reads “We have the right to declare it our own capital.” — Anis Qassem, PLO legal committee chairman.
Cite this clipping
"Constitution draft refers to Jerusalem as Palestine capital," San Antonio Express News, 28 May 1994, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1994-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1994-005
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