Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-awaited speech to a special session of the U.N. General Assembly, Arafat referred specifically to Israel several times and directly appealed to Israeli leaders to join peace talks...
...Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman said Arafat failed to meet conditions for opening a dialogue with the United States because his speech did not clearly recognize Israel's right to exist...
...speech contained some "interesting and positive developments," Redman said, but "continued to be ambiguous on key issues"--including recognition of Israel, renunciation of terrorism and acceptance of U.N. Resolutions...
Immediately afterward, Moshe Raviv of Israel's Foreign Ministry criticized Arafat's speech as "evasive rhetoric" and repeated Israel's claim that an independent Palestinian state is an obstacle to peace...
...There was more ambiguity in this speech than in Algiers," he said, referring to Arafat's address last month to the Palestine National Council. "I do not see any major departure...ambiguity and more ambiguity...