PLO central council to meet on the issue of declaring the Palestinian state

Salim al-Za'noun, the chairman of the Palestinian National Council, announced on Tuesday that the central council of the PLO will hold a meeting to discuss the question of announcing the Palestinian state. In a telephone call with the office of the AFP in Amman on Tuesday,al-Za'noun said, "We are now extending invitations to members of the PLO council to attend the meeting," to be held in the last week of April.