Former President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to meet here Wednesday with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat.
Palestinian and Arab diplomatic sources in Paris confirmed that the meeting will take place at Carter’s hotel.
They called it a major diplomatic breakthrough.
Carter, though ex-officio, will be the highest-ranking American personality with whom Arafat has met.
The meeting was kept under wraps until now, presumably to avoid public protests.
Jewish organizations, having learned about it, are preparing to demonstrate outside the hotel while the meeting is in progress Wednesday.
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