DAKAR. Dec 1 1 : PLO Chief Yasser Arafat accused the United States of not being an honest broker In the Arab Israeli conflict but pledged to support the peace talks which resumed in Washington on Tuesday, reports Reuter.

We know that the Israeli and friends.... the co-sponsors of the peace conference are A^rT’1'1* who**’*'*™* thr honest broker in this difficult and dangerous game. Arafat said.

He told an Islamic summit which opened In Dakar on

Monday that the Palestinians were seridus about supporting what he called an historic opportunity that should not be missed.

But he said that the PLO s flexibility did not mean that Palestinians would relinquish their right to Jerusalem apd other Arab, territories Israel has occupied since 1967

We know that what is hap-fierce^ political battle between a merciless enemy (Israel) and a people that knows no fear or surrender, he told the leader, of the 45 members Organisation of the Islamic Conference.