Germany dismissed a report that Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer attended a 1969 PLO conference in Algeria where delegates backed Yasser Arafat’s vow to fight for the destruction of Israel. The report, aired on German public television, said the conference was aimed at winning the support of Westerners to carry out propaganda for the PLO’s armed struggle against Israel.
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