91. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin also referred in opening speeches to their dispute over Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital. 92. PLO chairman Yasser Arafat made a plea in his opening speech for the Palestinians not to be left behind in the peace bonanza. 93. Secretary General Don McKinnon in his opening speech on Saturday took pains to stress the need to tackle poverty by harnessing the benefits of globalisation. 94. She told the daily that Milosevic had given her a telephone call early Friday, after his opening speech. 95. Sir Leon Brittan, the EU commissioner for trade policy, told the ministers in his opening speech there were four key areas to be addressed. 96. The deputy secretary general of the Council of Europe, Peter Leuprecht, cited discrimination against gypsy minorities as a key problem in his opening speech. |