 "No, they won't!"
"Yes, they will!" |
France has assured the Palestinian Authority that a copy of Yasser Arafat's medical chart will be given to the late president's nephew who is also a Palestinian diplomat, Palestinian officials said.
| Do you get the impression the Frenchies are telling both sides what they want to hear? Quelle dilemma! Suha knows where the biggest secret accounts are, but the Paleo henchmen know where many of the others are. I think the Paleo henchmen will win out in the end, since they've got something like a country to align with La Belle France and Suha's only got several closets full of queen-size dresses... |
Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie said after meeting the French Consul General in Jerusalem, Regis Koetschet, that a copy of Arafat's medical records would be given to Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat's nephew and the Palestinian representative at the United Nations. Qurie said Koetschet had told him during the meeting that the Palestinian Authority's request for information on Arafat's illness and cause of death was "legitimate". The 75-year-old Palestinian leader died of an undisclosed illness at a French hospital on November 11.
| ... and remains in stable condition. |
Doctors have refused to make his medical records public due to French privacy laws, leading to a wave of rumours that he was poisoned. French and Palestinian Authority officials have denied the allegations. "The French gave us a response to the letter we sent to them regarding the hospital report on the illness and the cause of death of President Yasser Arafat. They responded positively and they understand that ... our request is legitimate," Qurie said. |