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brave leader, Yasser Arafat, who tried everything he could for a
two-state solution. Reactions from around the world speak for
themselves:
"With him disappears a man of courage and conviction who
for 40 years incarnated the Palestinians' fight for recognition of
their national rights.
France, like its partners in the European Union, will
maintain, firmly and with conviction, its commitment to two states...
living side by side in peace and security.
The road map, approved by Yasser Arafat, opens up that prospect.
[...] I came to bow before President Yasser Arafat and pay him a final homage."
-French President Jacques Chirac "Yasser Arafat strove during his lifetime to lead the
Palestinians to independence and establish a sovereign, viable Palestinian State
-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder "It is perhaps the most tragic aspect of President
Arafat's death that he did not live to see the fruition of his ambition
of a Palestinian state, despite the early promise which attended his
election as president of the Palestinian Authority"
-Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern |
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