AFP: USSR WOULD APPROVE OF PLO-JORDAN CONFEDERATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R001202710010-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 13, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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FBIS 63 (SEE 58)
AFP: USSR WOULD APPROVE OF PLO-JORDAN CONFEDERiI T ION
NC131212 PARIS AFP IN ENGLISH 1139 GMT 13 JAN 83
(TEXT) MOSCOW: JAN 1S (AFP) -- THE SOVIET UNION WOULD
APPROVE THE CREATION OF A CONFEDERATION BETWEEN RN INDEPENDENT
PALESTINIAN STATE AND JORDAN! VISITING PALESTINE LIBERATION
ORGANIZATION (PLO) CHIEF YASIR 'ARAFAT SAID TODAY.
MR 'ARAFAT TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE HERE THAT SOVIET LEADER
Y!!RIY ANDROPOY HAD SAID MOSCOW WOULD SAPPROVE ANYTHING THAT IL
IN THE INTEREST OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLES THIS INCLUDED
POSSIBLE RELATIONS OF CONFEDERATIONS BETWEEN AN INDEPENDENT
PALESTINIAN STATE AND JORDAN. j
MR 'ARAFAT SAID HE TOLD THE SOVIET LEADER AT A MEETING HERE
YESTERDAY THAT BOTH HE AND JORDAN'S KING HUSAYN FAVORED SUCH A
CONFEDERATION, TO BE ESTABLISHED AFTER A SIMULTANEOUS REFERENDUM
IN JORDAN AND THE FUTURE PALESTINIAN STATE.
S JAN 15562 PIC:H/CRJ
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