Former Palestinian leader Ahmed Qurei (Abu Al-Alaa) has died at the age of 86 in a hospital in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. A statement released by the official Wafa news agency said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lamented “a great national fighter who spent his life as a staunch fighter defending Palestine, its cause, its people and its independent national solution.” antibiotics were administered intravenously, but his condition worsened and he died.
Ahmed Ali Muhammad Qurei (Abu Ala) was born in Jerusalem in 1937. In 1968, he devoted himself entirely to the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and in 1993 led the Palestinian delegation to the Oslo Agreement negotiations to be known as the “architect of Oslo”.
He also served as Governor of Palestine at the Islamic Development Bank from 1987 to 1996 and led the preparation of the General Program for the Development of the Palestinian National Economy 1994-2000.
He played a key role in the Middle East peace process, where he was the general coordinator of the Palestinian delegations in multilateral negotiations and led the Palestinian delegation during the Palestinian-Israeli talks in Oslo, Norway, which culminated in a Declaration of Principles Agreement, signed by the initials of the Palestinian side and Shimon Peres with Israeli side in the twentieth century. Since August 1993, he was known as the architect of Oslo.
