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- 1 2 PLO asks Mahmud Abbas to be acting president of "state of Palestine" Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine , Al-Jazeera TV, Doha (8 May 2005): "The PLO Executive Committee has decided to ask [President] Mahmud Abbas to carry out the duties of the president of the state of Palestine until the PLO Central Council [PCC] is convened."
- 1 2 PLO body elects Abbas 'president of Palestine' Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine , AFP (23 November 2008): "I announce that the PLO Central Council has elected Mahmud Abbas president of the State of Palestine. He takes on this role from this day, November 23, 2008," the body's chairman Salem al-Zaanun told reporters.
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