The Palestinian National Council (PNC) confirmed that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is tackling the fiercest American-Israeli aggressive campaign targeting the right of return, the state and Jerusalem, and PLO will succeed in thwarting the long and near campaigns that are targeting the steadfastness of the Palestinian position, just as it succeeded in maintaining the independence of the national decision, it will not allow anyone to speak on behalf of our Palestinian people, and will not allow anyone to claim to represent and care for the Palestinian interests except Palestinians.

In a statement on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the PLO, PNC said that the repercussions of the events - no doubt - proved that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the home of all Palestinians in all places wherever they are, the solid expression of the national position that is facing the attempts to violate the rights of our people and the Palestinian people united representation.

PNC affirmed that the PLO will remain the custodian of the rights of the Palestinian people and representing its supreme interests. It will continue to call for boycotting the economic conference to be held at a US invitation in Bahrain next month and aims to impose an economic solution instead of a political solution, whose legal references and requirements are known. All these desperate attempts will go to the maze of history, as what happened with scores of attempts by those who dared to speak on behalf of our people or to claim concern for their interests, whether political or economic.

PNC added that the PLO has been able to preserve the rights of self-determination and return, and was able to achieve the international recognition in the United Nations for the Palestinian state with its capital city of Jerusalem on the borders of the fourth of June 1967, and will never give up those rights whatever the temptations, and the pressures will intensify.

PNC said in its statement: On this day in 1964, the city of Jerusalem hosted hundreds of representatives of the Palestinian people from within the homeland and from the diaspora to declare that the will of the people to rise will never be stopped by anyone. The Palestinian people restored their personality and national identity after the Nakba )the catastrophe( that occurred in 1948. The birth of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the people emerged from the ashes of the Nakba (the catastrophe), and our people vowed to return to their homeland.

PNC stressed that it will continue to work to activate and strengthen the institutions of the PLO to take its natural place in the Palestinian political system, as the founders and early martyrs from Ahmed Shuqairi to George Habash to Abu Ammar wanted to, in addition to other martyrs and leaders who sacrificed their lives for the sake of our people rights, and in defense of its independent decision.

PNC reiterated that our confrontation with the Israeli occupation entails primarily to end the divide of Palestinians and achieve unity within the framework of the PLO, implement the decisions of the PNC at its last session and implement the decisions of the central councils regarding to revoke the recognition of the State of Israel, until Israel recognizes the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and stop Israel from practicing a policy of racial discrimination aimed at the elimination of our right to self-determination, return and statehood.