[1] The agreement established principles under which the presence and activities of Palestinian guerrillas in southeastern Lebanon would be tolerated and regulated by the Lebanese authorities.
[4] Although the camps remained under Lebanese sovereignty, the new arrangements meant that after 1969, they became a key popular base for the guerrilla movement.
[10] After the alliance's military successes the right-wing Maronite president, Suleiman Frangieh, called upon Syria to intervene.
The PLO then retreated to the south but continued guerrilla operations across the Lebanon-Israel border, which resulted in an Israeli invasion in March 1978.
In June 1987, Lebanese President Amine Gemayel signed a law to annul the Cairo Agreement with the PLO.