Based on the jurisdictions invested in us, and due to the current difficult conditions in the homeland, and for purposes of utmost necessity, and based on the requirements of the higher national interests and after reviewing the Basic Law - Chapter Seven, Provisions of the state of emergency,
We decided the following:
Article (1)
To declare the state of emergency according to the provisions of Chapter Seven in the Basic Law on all the territories of the PNA.
Article (2)
a- an emergency government shall be formed and shall consist of the following names:
1. Brother Ahmad Qrei - "Abu Ala" as Prime Minister
2. Brother Nasr Yousef as Minister of Interior
3. Brother Salam Fayyad as Minister of Finance
4. Brother Nabil Shaath as Foreign Minister
5. Brother Naim Abu Hommos
6. Brother Saeb Erekat
7. Brother Jawad Tibi
8. Brother Jamal Shobaki
9. Brother Abdul Rahman Hamad
b- among the main tasks of the government is to work on reinforcing and consolidating national unity, in addition to other basic tasks.
Article (3)
After the passage of the legal period as stated in article (110) of Chapter Seven in the Basic Law, the measures and procedures taken shall be presented to the PLC.
Article (4)
All competent parties each in its own jurisdictions has to implement its part of this decree which shall of effective as of this date. Issued in the city of Ramallah on October 5, 2003
Yasser Arafat
President of the State of Palestine
Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee
President of the PNA
