Arafat on Moscow TV
NZPA Moscow The President of the Palestine Liberation Organization (Mr Yasser Arafat) has completed a four-day visit to Moscow that seems to have enhanced his status as a Palestinian leader while strengthening the Soviet Union’s position in dealing with the United States on > the Middle East. The Soviet Communist ’ Party leader (Mr Leonid Brezhnev) has surprised dip- ‘ lomatic observers by' receiving Mr Arafat for the first i time since he began visiting J Russia on- behalf of the ; p. 1.0. Mr Arafat had been re- . ceived at the Kremlin only [once before, by the Prime i Minister (Mr Alexei KosJygin) in November. 1974, Jjust after the United Nations General Assembly resolution . favourable to the Palestinian , cause. The rest of the time he saw no-one higher than the Foreign Minister (Mr ! Andrei Gromyko). Soviet television broadcast the beginning of the first Brezhnev-Arafat meeting. Their friendly talks dealt mainly with the role of the Palestinian resistance in the joint struggle of the Arab peoples to get rid of the (after-effects of Israeli aggression, the Soviet news agency, Tass, reported.
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Press, 9 April 1977, Page 9
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