Word: visas
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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...
...Washington, the State Department said the U.S. decision to deny the visa was "firm and final." But it said it would not stand in the way of moving the debate on Palestinian issues which is scheduled to begin Thursday...
...opinion that the host country was and is under an obligation to grant the visa request of the chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization which has been granted observer status by the general Assembly," Fleischhauer said...
Arab diplomats called the U.S. visa denial a "slap in the face" and a violation of the agreement...