From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:38:40 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Yasser Arafat thanks Fidel Castro Yasser Arafat Sends Letter To Cuban President Fidel Castro Our people, resistant as the mountains of Palestine, takes from your position and example, more determination and enthusiasm to continue the struggle. Your Excellency, Mister President, World leader and friend Fidel Castro Ruz: A salute of friendship and solidarity: With deep feelings we could see yesterday on the internatrional news agencies the immage of Your Excellency with the Palestinian "hatta" on your shoulders, at the front of a peoples demonstration of solidarity with the struggle of our heroic people. I consider, Your Excellency President Fidel Castro, this demonstration of firmness and unbreakable friendship that has taken place in Havana, as a strong and effective message from a world beloved leader with a great international prestige, to mobilize them quickly in order to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people, as a consequence of the Israeli invasion of their country and the reinforcement of their attacks on our cities, hamlets, peoples, farms and water wells and the closing of the international border passes by earth, air and water. Dear Mister President: >From the deep of my heart and that of the Palestinians I express gratitude for this courageous position against the Israeli aggression to our people, his country and Christian and Islamic sacred places, which each Palestrinian holds deep in his heart and conscience along with the immage of Your Excellency with the Palestinian "hatta" on your shoulders, as a sign of the extreme justice of our cause and the magnitude of the injustice committed by the Israely aggressors against our people. Be confident, Your Excellency Fidel Castro, so much loved by our people and by all péoples, that ours, resistant as the Palestinian mountains, takes from your example and position more enthusiasm and decision to continue the struggle, the resistance and the Intifada to get the Israeli invaders out of our country, Palestine. I deeply greet you and salute the Cuban Revolution under your strong and holy direction . I salute the friendly and heroic people of Cuba Long live the Palestinian-Cuban Solidarity With my best wishes to Your Excellency Yasser Arafat President of the State of Palestine President of the Executive Committee of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine President of the Palestine National Authority Ramallah, June 16th, 2001 Your Excellency Sir Fidel Castro Ruz President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Havana. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
