Arafat to visit Damascus in the mid of April

It was announced in Amman on Wednesday that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat will pay an official visit to Syria in the mid of April, after he and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held a meeting in Amman, their first meeting, on the sideline of the Arab summit.

The minister of international cooperation at the Palestinian Authority Nabil Shaath said that " an important delegation including Palestinian officials will accompany Arafat during his historical visit to Syria."

He added that " Amman's summit was the Syrian- Palestinian reconciliation summit."