Arafat Said Ready to Accept Plan
By Mark Lavie
Associated Press Writer
Friday, June 21, 2002; 10:43 AM
JERUSALEM –– Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prepared to accept a Mideast peace plan put forward by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton in December 2000, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Friday.
In an interview at his Ramallah headquarters, Arafat told Haaretz reporter Akiva Eldar that he would take the Clinton plan without changes, Eldar told The Associated Press on Friday. "I am prepared to accept it, absolutely," Eldar quoted Arafat as saying, and he endorsed the points of the plan one by one, Eldar said.
Palestinian officials could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.
