Based on this, the PLO Executive Committee highly appreciates the Baker-Hamilton Report and considers the recommendations mentioned in the report as an introduction to ending the stalemate and retreat that hit the political process; the report also assists in setting the correct principles towards start of negotiations within an international context that tackles the main final-status issues towards reaching the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders and solving the refugees cause through a just and agreed upon solution according to the Arab Peace Initiative. The PLO Executive Committee also highly appreciates the European Initiative and the position of British PM Tony Blair and his efforts to revive the political process. Based on this, the PLO Executive Committee affirms its full readiness to participate in all steps to revive the peace process and return to the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, since the PLO Executive Committee is the address and it is the sole and legitimate representative, and all matters pertaining to the crisis of the government that represent a Palestinian internal affair that does not affect the role of the PLO, as confirmed by the recent National Conciliation Document that the PLO is the sole body with full responsibility for the negotiations file.

2- The PLO Executive Committee studies the report submitted to it by the six-member committee which was commissioned by the PLO Executive Committee last week and decided to form several committees to activate its role and the role of its departments at the various levels.

The PLO Executive Committee also took several decisions on reformulating the Higher Negotiations Committee and the Committee to activate the role of the Palestinian National Fund and set up the appropriate recommendations to that effect, and start with activating the role of the special committee dealing with holding the national dialogue to activate the PLO.

The PLO Executive Committee also decided to call for holding a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council and for setting a date for that meeting in agreement with the PNC Speaker's Office.

The PLO Executive Committee decided to activate the Secretariat and commission one of its members to be in charge of the Secretariat and to commission a special committee to study the law for the PNC elections according to full proportional representation. All these steps aim to see the PLO Executive Committee assume a responsible role to end the current deterioration happening on more than one level and to intensify the efforts to end the siege imposed on the Palestinian people and their PNA, especially the political and economic siege and not to lose the chance and opportunity for the Palestinian people on activating the political process.

3- The PLO Executive Committee expressed the need for the President to deliver a comprehensive speech to the Palestinian people this week to define the approaches and trends needed to put an end to the government crisis.

The PLO Executive Committee expressed its support to the position that was presented by the President and which he will announce in the speech he will deliver.

4- The Committee affirms its rejection to any measures or decisions issued by the government that can lead to establishing security apparatuses parallel to the official apparatuses and institutions; the PLO Executive Committee warns of the dangers of such steps on internal security and peace, especially that these aim to consolidate the official formation of special armies which sabotage the current and future efforts to establish a Palestinian national unity government.