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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (22281)3/26/2002 5:10:40 PM
From: BigBull  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The plot thickens:

Arafat declines the gambit. Mubarak stays home. Hmmmmm.

Next Move?

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reuters.com

Arafat, who had earlier hoped to attend the Beirut summit which begins on Wednesday, announced he would stay putbecause Israeli preconditions for freeing him from confinement in the West Bank city of Ramallah were unacceptable.

Arafat would also have run the risk of Israel blocking his return to the Palestinian territories, part of which were handed to Palestinian rule under interim deals in the 1990s, if it judged anything he said in Beirut to be "incitement."

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had advised Arafat not to go to the summit. "We cannot predict what the Israeli government will do. If I were in his place and they told me I could go, I would not go," Mubarak told the Beirut newspaper an-Nahar.

"The Israelis might not allow him to return and they will use any incident as an excuse to destroy the remaining headquarters and the Palestinian Authority will be in exile."

Mubarak dealt a further blow to the Arab summit when his aides announced that he himself would not attend because of "domestic commitments."

"The absence of President Mubarak is a surprise and a setback. It weakens the summit and its ability to make correct decisions and clear plans," Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said.
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