Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in West Virginia over the weekend to remind him that the Israeli- Palestinian negotiations should also get his attention. Arafat emphasized the importance of all the negotiating tracks, not just the Israeli-Syrian, according to a spokesman.
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