The Palestinians have failed to meet their obligations to curb terrorism, Kofi Annan said. The U.N. secretary general used unusually blunt language in a private reply to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, who had written Annan to complain about Israel’s plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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