Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, popularly known as Yasser Arafator by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth24 August 1929
CityCairo, Egypt
is more than realistic because according to the signed agreements ... our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999.
Our duty today, the duty of all of us is to continue the work that I started with my late partner Yitzhak Rabin, to protect the peace of the brave and to continue and complete that work,
complete and immediate cessation of all military activities ... especially suicide attacks.
We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met him in Athens with the participation of the European Union's Javier Solana and we have no objection to meeting him at any time.
I would like to call on you to re-evaluate all our administrative, ministerial and security institutions after we have seen errors here and there, errors that cannot be hidden from the public opinion.
We hope that we will have this agreement for the implementation of what had been agreed upon very soon.
Without a doubt, since the beginning we have welcomed American initiatives which we hope will succeed, especially in the upcoming London meetings.
We told him that we are ready to consult and discuss with him the items of the proposals but that they should not be the only basis,
has to invest more of his authority, of his control. But there is a beginning of hope that I wouldn't put aside.
I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.
So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,
Most of the talk will be concentrated on how best we can go back to the negotiation table.
No one single house to be added. Not any expansion to any settlement,
We cannot confine the talks to security issues, ... All issues should be discussed with Ross in order to reach positive results.