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On the fate of the Palestinian refugees
Palestine, Politics, 7/22/1999
The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa quoted sources from the Palestinian alliance which opposes Yasser Arafat's Palestinian government in Sidon as saying on Tuesday that the fate of the Palestinian refugees constitutes the main issue for the coming tour of Jordan's King Abdullah, which will include Lebanon.
These sources, which are close to Damascus, unveiled that the king of Jordan talked about this matter with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on the ground that Jordan hosts some 2 million Palestinians in its territories and proposed the idea of getting Iraq involved in this matter due to its geographical capabilities in settling Palestinians in Iraq.
According to talks held by the Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam with the former chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Khaled al-Fahoum, the secretary general of al-Saeqa organization, Issam al-Qadi, and the assistant secretary general of the People's Front, General Command, Talal Naji, Damascus is not in a hurry to take a final position in waiting for circumstances pertaining to the negotiations, because Damascus believes that such an issue should be kept for the time being.
The sources added that in the context of this Syrian vision the follow-up committee of the Palestinian national forces conference, which was held in Damascus on December 26 and 27, 1998, is to convene a meeting for the alliance groups in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, in Damascus next Saturday, July 24, in order to assess the situation regarding current international proposals as well as relations with the PLO.
The sources indicated that it seems that Damascus is not conservative over maintaining an inter-Palestinian dialogue to this end.
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