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Palestinian delegates to ME talks meet Arafat
AMMAN. Jordan. June 19: Palestinian delegates io the Middle East peace talks on Thursday defied Israeli laws prohibiting contact with the 1*1.0 and met publicly for the first lime with Pl.O chief Yasser Arafat, reports Al’.
Under the gaze of reporters and photographers. Arafat embraced each of the 14 negotia tors and their 12 advisers as they arrived at the Quest I’nlucc for a meeting. A special bear hug was accorded to Hannun Ashrawi. the dclegu tlon s spokeswoman.
Reporters were not allowed to ask any questions, but photographers were given several minutes to lake pictures before the meeting started at 7.30 pm (1630 GMT).
The Palestinians hud come from the Israeli-occupied territories earlier in the day and seemed unconcerned about the risk they were taking in posing for pictures with the 62-year old PLO leader.
Israel bars any contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization on the grounds It is a terrorist organization. Israeli peace activists and Palestinians have in the past been jailed for meeting with the PLO.
It was not immediately clear what Impact the meeting would have on the Middle East peace talks, launched in Madrid last October. But it highlighted the influence the Palestine Liberation Organization has maintained on the negotiations, despite Its physical absence.
As the meeting started. Arafat sat at a round table be-
tween the Palestinian delegation chief. Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi. a native of occupied Gaza City, and Faisal llusseini, the leading PLO supporter In the West Bank.
Ashrawi and Hussein! were the main negotiators with US Secretary of State James A Baker before the start of the peace talks in October.
Al Israel's insistence, they
were excluded from the negotiating team and allowed to serve only as advisers, mainly because they come from Jerusalem.
Israel regards Jerusalem, Including the eastern Arab sector which ft occupied In 1967, as its capital and refuses to allow the participation of Arabs from the city In the peace talks.
In Jerusalem, Prine Minister" Yitzhak Shamir's spokesman Ehud Col would not specify whether Israel would bring charges against the negotiators. He said the meeting was the latest stage of a scries of provocations' by Ashrawi and Husaeini, and that "an appropriate response to their behavior will come*. He would not elaborate.