march 26, 1935 in the city of sofet, graduated from the faculty of law of damascus university, postgraduatetudy at the university of friendship of peoples and... since 1980 a member of the executive committee of the plo, the palestine liberation organization. in may 1996 , he was elected secretary general of the plo executive committee. since january 9, 2005, the head of the palestinian national on august 8, 2009, he was re-elected as the chairman of the fatah movement for a new term. on january 6, 2013, mahmoud abbas took office. his post is officially called the president of the state of palestine. i am glad to see you. welcome. when did we meet before? we met four times in ramallah, in moscow. you look wonderful, excellent. thank you very much. it should be said that the program of the form of government has met with president mahmoud abbas more than once, we had conversations with him when he was still heading the palestinian national authority, in 2013, when he became president of the state of palestine, i must say that these were always very frank, sincere and very deep conversations.