The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, having renewed the instructions of the Palestinian National Council for the establishment of a special committee to prepare the Constitution of the State of Palestine, the Constitution Committee has proceeded to accomplish what had been initiated in 1999.
After great effort, with over two hundred meetings, workshops and discussions, the committee for the preparation of the Constitution, in cooperation with the civil society, academics and politicians, had achieved by the end of December 2000 the first draft of the Constitutional project of the State of Palestine. It was published in February 2001.