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الأردن يفكّ ارتباطه بالضفة الغربية
Exact day31 July 1988
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 31 July 1988, during the first intifada, King Hussein announced the disengagement of Jordan’s legal and administrative ties with the West Bank, responding to the wish of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
In his address to the nation from Amman on 31 July 1988, King Hussein described the decision as a response to the Palestinian demand for dismantling the legal and administrative links between the two banks of the Jordan, and said that Jordan would respect the wish of the PLO, the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.1
Link to this chapterThe UN backgrounder records that, following the intifada and King Hussein’s declaration of 31 July 1988, the Palestine National Council met in Algiers from 12 to 15 November 1988 and adopted the Proclamation of Independence of the State of Palestine.2
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe First Intifada, The Palestinian Declaration of Independence, Abu Jihad is assassinated in Tunisia
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Address text
Original-language quotation · endismantling the legal and administrative links between the two banksLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: D. Decisions of the Palestine National Council in 1988
Original-language quotation · enKing Hussein’s declaration on 31 July 1988 concerning the disengagement of Jordan’s legal and administrative ties with the West BankLink to this citationdocument · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The address’s text, in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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document · United Nations
The United Nations backgrounder on the question of Palestine from 1979 to 1990, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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