(1955-04-28)28 April 1955 Abu Dis, Jordanian-annexed West Bank
Died
10 November 2020(2020-11-10) (aged 65) Jerusalem
Nationality
Palestinian
Political party
Fatah
Spouse
Neameh Erekat
(m. 1981; died 2020)
Children
4
Relatives
Noura Erakat (niece) Yousef Erakat (nephew) Ahmad Erekat (nephew)
Residence
Jericho
Alma mater
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and University of Bradford
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (Arabic: صائب محمد صالح عريقاتṢāʼib ʻUrayqāt; also ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat; 28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020.[1][2] He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He participated in early negotiations with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. He reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003.
^"Saeb Erekat (Secretary General)". ECFR. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
^"Saeb Erekat | The Guardian". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (Arabic: صائب محمد صالح عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt; also ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat; 28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a...
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other officers. Erekat was a nephew of Palestinian politician SaebErekat and a cousin of Palestinian-American attorney Noura Erekat and Palestinian-American...
|journal= (help) February 12, 2007 - Erekat Letter to Pistolese and Dangot Re: Rafah Crossings. Letter from SaebErekat to GoI and EU BAM Rafah, 12 February...
personality 1954 – Ron Zook, American football player and coach 1955 – SaebErekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (d. 2020) 1955 – Eddie Jobson, English...
permanent status is up to further negotiation. Senior Palestinian official SaebErekat said that the speech had "closed the door to permanent status negotiations"...
an African-American judge and justice of the California Supreme Court SaebErekat (born 1955), a Palestinian diplomat who previously served as chief of...
take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum for both sides. PLO negotiations chief SaebErekat refused to accept anything other than the summit's draft and ruled out...
Erakat (born 1980), Palestinian American lawyer and human right activist SaebErekat (1955–2020), Palestinian diplomat Said Arikat (born 1947 or 1948), Palestinian...
this never took place. On 3 February 2020, lead Palestinian negotiator SaebErekat said "What is left to negotiate? When I said these issues must be negotiated...
of his intentions, senior Palestinian figures, such as Yasser Arafat, SaebErekat, and Faisal Husseini, all asked Sharon to call off his visit. Ten days...
Authority on February 8, 2005. When announced, chief Palestinian negotiator SaebErekat publicly defined the ceasefire as follows: "We have agreed that today...
and Israeli crossings, unless there is a further decision by Abbas. SaebErekat then said the new emblem will be used in correspondence with countries...
should perish from this world. God should strike them with a plague." SaebErekat of the PLO said Yosef's remarks were tantamount to a call for "genocide...
original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2007. "Transcript: SaebErekat". Al Jazeera. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2024. "Gingrich spokesman...
Palestine Papers were made public, Buttu called for the resignation of SaebErekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, saying that the documents revealed...
West Bank and Gaza. It was formally without overt PLO associates like SaebErekat and Haidar Abdel-Shafi, the head of the delegation, because of Israeli...
tendered his government's resignation, two days after PLO negotiator SaebErekat had resigned over the leakage of the Palestine Papers, and one day after...
date of 17 July 2010. In February 2011, following the resignation of SaebErekat as chief negotiator with Israel for the Israeli–Palestinian peace process...
date of 17 July 2010. In February 2011, following the resignation of SaebErekat as chief negotiator with Israel for the Israeli–Palestinian peace process...