The European Union described Yasser Arafat as a historic leader. In a statement Thursday from the E.U.’s Dutch presidency, Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said Arafat was “an historic leader and a democratically elected president, whose devotion and single-minded commitment to the Palestinian national cause throughout his life was never in doubt.
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