✍The Cairo Agreement

On 3 November 1969, after clashes between the army and the fedayeen and a government crisis that lasted seven months, the army commander General Emile Boustany and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed a secret agreement in Cairo, under the sponsorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser, organising the armed Palestinian presence: the Palestinians' right to work, residence, movement and participation in the "armed struggle"; the transfer of the administration of the sixteen camps from the Deuxième Bureau to local committees and the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command; easing the passage of the fedayeen and fixing their positions in the Arqoub ("Fatahland"); with a commitment to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and security. Its clauses were not disclosed to the public and parliament never ratified it, so it became the starting point of dual authority until 1975. Parliament annulled it on 21 May 1987 by Law 25/87, which also annulled the 17 May Agreement.