Sharon refuses to permit Arafat to attend the summit
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/25/2002

The Israeli prime minister has announced that he will not permit the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat to attend the Arab summit conference in Beirut, under the pretext he did not do what is conducive to reducing what he called as acts of violence during last week.

The Israeli radio quoted Sharon as saying during a session for the mini Israeli Cabinet which was held on Sunday that the US Vice President Dick Cheney did not meet with Arafat because Arafat did not carry out even one condition of those laid by Cheney, as Sharon claimed.

On the other hand, the Israeli defense minister Benjamin Bin Aliazer said in the same session that Israel has decided to pursue the policy of self control towards the executors of the operations against Israel and this, as he claimed, stems from the Israeli desire to provide a success for the current mission of the US envoy Anthony Zinni.

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