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UNITED NATIONS--The General Assembly yesterday overwhelmingly deplored the U.S. denial of a visa for Yasser Arafat, the first step towards a protest meeting in Geneva to hear the PLO chairman next month...
UNITED NATIONS--Arab nations said yesterday the General Assembly session will move to Geneva so PLO chief Yasser Arafat can address it, unless the United States reverses itself within 48 hours and grants him a visa...
...PLO's U.N. observer, Zuhdi Labib Terzi, complained, "We have a message of peace that we want to bring to the General Assembly through Chairman Arafat. The United States is imposing some obstacles that would impede easy access, so we have to do it somewhere else...
...decision [to move to Geneva] is already taken by Arab countries and the PLO that the U.N. debate on Palestine and the Middle East should be done in a more hospitable country which abides by its obligations," the PLO envoy told reporters...
...PLO has non-voting observer status at the United Nations and is a member of the Arab League...