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Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin has
denied a newspaper report
that Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization
have held secret talks, but
both Palestinian and Israeli
sources have confirmed the
report.
The Ha'aretz newspaper
quoted a "senior political
source" as saying that talks
between Israeli and PLO of-
ficials from Tunis have been
held during the past few
weeks, through messengers
in both Israel and an Arab
country, with the full
knowledge and support of
Mr. Rabin and PLO leader
Yassir Arafat.
The American administra-
tion was also involved in the
talks, the source was quoted
as saying.
If true, that would be a
change in policy for the
United States, which se-
vered a 17-month dialogue
with the PLO in June 1990.
In Washington, State
Department spokesman
Mike McCurry said that he
was aware of reports about
Israeli meetings with PLO
officials. But he referred
reporters to "the parties who
were cited in those news
reports."
"As you know, we don't
have discussions directly
with the PLO," he added.
In Tunis, meanwhile, Mr.
Arafat told the Reuters news
agency that senior PLO offi-
cials had met with Israeli
diplomats in Washington
twice during the last round
of Middle East peace talks.
But Mr. Arafat said the
talks failed in their attempt
to break the stalemate in the
Israeli-Palestinian negotia-
tions.
The source quoted by
Ha'aretz did not mention
who took part in the negotia-
tions but said that they were
being held at a level "high
enough to make decisions."
The purpose of the talks,
said the source, was to break
the deadlock in the bilateral
negotiations.
"If these contacts bear
results," said the source,
"this will be a bombshell.
The public will be amazed
when things get clearer."
Gad Ben-Ari, Mr. Rabin's
spokesman, denied the
report stressing that the
peace negotiations were be-
ing held only within the
framework of the rules laid
down at the October 1991
peace conference in Madrid,
which launched the current
negotiations.
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres, who has generally
been more open than Mr.
Rabin about the possibility
of future talks with the PLO,
also denied the newspaper
report.
But Mr. Arafat's political
adviser, Nabil Sha'ath, a
member of the Palestinian
delegation to the peace
talks, confirmed the report
in a news conference he con-
vened in Cairo.
And here in Israel, Deputy
Housing Minister Ran
Cohen of the dovish Meretz
bloc also said that the report
was correct and had been
corroborated by "a Palestin-
ian source" with whom he
had been in contact.
Mr. Cohen said a "senior
PLO source" told him the
talks were being held in a
"positive and constructive
atmosphere," although no
substantive results had been
achieved so far.
Reports of the alleged
Israeli-PLO meetings sur-
faced as American envoy
Dennis Ross shuttled from
one Middle East capital to
another, in an attempt to
break the deadlocks in
Israel's separate bilateral
negotiations with Syria and
the Palestinians.
Mr. Ross, who held
meetings with Syrian offi
cials, met in Jordan with
Crown Prince Hassan and
Prime Minister Abdul
Salam al-Majali, who has
headed the Jordanian dele-
gation to the peace talks.
Mr. Ross, who is the State
Department's coordinator
for the peace talks, then
returned to Jerusalem.
Israel Pays
U.N. Fees
United Nations (JTA) —
Israel has sent the United
Nations Secretariat
$350,000 to cover its share of
peacekeeping operations in
Yugoslavia, Cambodia and
the Golan Heights.
Israel also recently sent a
$300,000 installment of its
$3 million annual dues.
A press release issued by
the Israeli mission here
noted that, in contrast, "the
United States and the
former Soviet Unions have
amassed the largest debts"
to the world body.