Palestine denies Arafat's approval of Abu Dis as Palestinian capital
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/7/1998

The deputy chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Teiseer Kobaa, denied today a report published on Tuesday by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed that the city of Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, would be the capital of an independent Palestine.

In a statement to ArabicNews.com, Kobaa said, "We have informed the Americans, the Russians and the Europeans that eastern Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, is the capital of the coming Palestinian state." He said that its land is subject to Security Council resolution 242 as well as on the rest of the lands occupied in 1967. The Palestinian National Council decided Jerusalem would be the capital of the Palestinian state.

Haaretz reported that Arafat agreed that Abu Dis would be the capital of the Palestinian state.

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