Arafat's visit to Damascus and Oslo's signing date

The Jordanian weekly al-Hilal ( the Crescent) said in its recent issue published Tuesday that the date set for the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat to Damascus which is September 12 is the same date when the Oslo agreement was signed. The agreement which is one of the stations of deteriorated Syrian- Palestinian relations. In a report from Damascus, the paper said that Arafat's visit to Damascus bears in itself a special meaning to erase the date of signing Oslo from the Syrian political memory and to replace it by a new date.