Big welcome for Arafat in Sweden
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm The Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat scored a diplomatic coup in Sweden, receiving an official welcome usually reserved for heads of Government and holding talks with five American Jewish intellectuals. Officials said the enthusiastic welcome given to Mr Arafat by the Swedish Government was intended to signal Stockholm’s support for moves by the Palestine Liberation Organisation towards recognition of the. State of Israel.
“The P.L.O. has implicitly recognised Israel. Now it must take one more step forward,” said
one official. Mr Arafat was met at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport by a bevy of dignatories headed by the Foreign Minister, Sten Andersson. He was whisked away to a Royal summer house outside Stockholm for his talks with the Jewish delegation.
The Prime Minister, Ingvar Carlsson, gave the clearest indication of the importance attached by Sweden to Mr Arafat by cutting short an official visit to Paris to meet him. Mr Arafat said his talks with the Jewish delegation went better than expected. The Jews, described by influential leaders of
American Jewry, were members of a Left-leaning research body called the International Centre for Peace in the Middle East.
Only one, Menachem Rosensaft, was a leader of a major American Jewish Organisation, the Labour Zionist Alliance which is allied with the Israeli Labour party. The others were Rita Hauser, head of the American arm of the Tel Aviv-based International Centre for Peace in the Middle East; its executive director, Drora Kass, an economist and publisher, Stanley Shienbaum, and Avraham Udovitch, professor of Middle Eastern history at Princeton University.
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