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November 12, 2012, Monday
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PALESTINIANS are coordinating with Russian, Swiss and French experts on the exhumation of late leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said.
Arafat died in a French military hospital near Paris on November 11, 2004 and French experts were unable to say what had killed him, with many Palestinians convinced he was poisoned by Israel.
"We are currently in coordination with the French investigators, the Swiss experts, and also the Russian government to open the tomb," Abbas said in a speech marking the eighth anniversary of Arafat's death yesterday.
His comments were the first time Palestinian officials have said that Russia is involved in the new investigation into Arafat's death.
"We hope for new facts that we can tell our people and the public," Abbas said, adding the investigation was "bigger and more important" than the "media uproar" created by an Al-Jazeera inquiry into Arafat's death.
Arafat died in a French military hospital near Paris on November 11, 2004 and French experts were unable to say what had killed him, with many Palestinians convinced he was poisoned by Israel.
"We are currently in coordination with the French investigators, the Swiss experts, and also the Russian government to open the tomb," Abbas said in a speech marking the eighth anniversary of Arafat's death yesterday.
His comments were the first time Palestinian officials have said that Russia is involved in the new investigation into Arafat's death.
"We hope for new facts that we can tell our people and the public," Abbas said, adding the investigation was "bigger and more important" than the "media uproar" created by an Al-Jazeera inquiry into Arafat's death.
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