Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat urged negotiations with Israel regarding the creation of a Palestinian state. Saying there could be no lasting peace with Israel without such a state, Arafat did not repeat during a speech in Stockholm his earlier pledges to unilaterally declare statehood next May.
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