Arafat against settling the Palestinians in Lebanon
Palestine-Lebanon, Politics, 1/30/2001

The chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat has announced that he is against settling the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

In a statement to the Lebanese daily al-Nahar issued on Monday Arafat added "I am against settling and there will be no settling for the Palestinians in Lebanon and no Palestinian refugee will stay on the Lebanese territories."

He continued " I had discussed this matter with the former US President Bill Clinton and he gave me clear guarantees on the American position towards this issue. A position which complies with our position in rejecting settlement in Lebanon and the priority to the return back of the Palestinian refugees is that for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon."

Meantime, on Sunday evening, the UN secretary general Kofi Annan met on the sideline of Davos summit with Arafat and reviewed with him developments of negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel which were suspended until February.

The Israeli minister of regional co-operation Shemon Peres who is also attending the Davos economic Forum said that he also proposed for Annan to convene a meeting between Arafat and the resigned Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak today ( Tuesday) in Stockholm in order to reactivate negotiations between the Palestinian authority and Israel.

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