Arafat vows to ‘free’ Jerusalem
NZPA Damascus The Palestinian guerrilla (chief. Yasser Arafat, vowed (yesterday to liberate Jerusa-i j lent from Israeli occupation las the Palestinian parlia-j (ment-in-exile began a long-; ! delaved meeting in Dam|ascus to find ways to scuttle; :peace talks between Israel! land Egypt. I The Svrian President (Mr; I Hafez Assad) told the 200; (representatives of the Pales-: | tine Liberation OrganisaI tion’s national council not to ’ (be misled by the present.: [deadlock in the Israeli-Egyp-; tian peace negotiations; I caused mainly by Egypt’s; demand to link the treaty! (with Palestinian autonomy. ) He said that the Egyptian; |President (Mr Anwar Sadat)!
i was trying to fool Arab pubi lie opinion into thinking that l ithe delay in signing the treaty was caused by the ■(linkage of a separate peace Jto the self-rule project. ■ I Israel and Egypt agreed at (the Camp David summit ■ meeting to a plan for limited '(autonomy for Palestinian I (Arabs in the Israeli-occupied (West Bank of the Jordan 'lRiver and the Gaza Strips •(The peace talks in Washing* ■ ton broke down in mid-No-(vember — two months after Camp David — over Egypt’s 'demand for linkage. | Mr Assad said he rejected 'any Israeli-sponsored plan (for Palestinian self-rule beI cause it falls short of what Ihe said most Arabs want — an independent Palestinian I State.
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