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France Upgrades
PLO Status

Paris (JTA) — France
upgraded the status of the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization office here from a
"press and liaison bureau" to
the "general delegation of
Palestine."
The decision was announ-
ced last week by President
Francois Mitterrand and,
while not unexpected, the
timing was a shock to Israeli
diplomats.
It preceded by only a few
hours the arrival of Israeli
Foreign Minister Moshe
Arens on his first foreign visit
since taking office last
month.
Arens was to speak at an in-
ternational conference to ban
chemical weapons and to hold
a series of high-level
diplomatic discussions here.
Mitterrand told a news con-
ference at the Elysee Palace
that the elevation of the PLO
office's status was a conse-
quence of the Palestine Na-
tional Council's November
meeting in Algiers, where
PLO leader Yassir Arafat pro-
claimed an independent
Palestinian state.
Theo Klein, president of
CRIF, the umbrella body of
major French Jewish organ-
izations, warned that the
decision will only complicate
the delicate search for peace
in the Middle East.

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Israeli Leaders
Blast E.C. Group

Jerusalem (JTA) — A
visiting delegation of the
Parliament of Europe got a
tongue lashing from Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
recently over European
criticism of Israel's handling
of the Palestinian uprising.
They also encountered a de-
fiant Prime Minister. Yitzhak
Shamir, who told them that
while Israel was willing to
listen to ideas for peace put
forward by the Europeans, it
alone would make the final
decisions.
The visitors from the
Strasbourg-based Parliament,
the legislative body of the
12-member European Com-
munity, came at the invita-
tion of the Knesset for their
annual inter-parliamentary
dialogue.
The president of The Euro-
pean Parliament, Lord Henry
Plumb of Britain, was told by
Shamir that it was hard to
see what role the E.C. could
play in the Middle East peace
process given its "consistent
pro-Palestinian policies."

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