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Afif Safieh
05/24/2006
Rashid Khalidi, Afif Safieh, David Makovsky
A conversation about Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington with guest host Bob Simon
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On the occasion of Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington DC, guest host Bob Simon of CBS hosts a panel discussion including Ambassador Afif Safieh of the PLO mission in Washington, professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University and David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Afif Safieh
Afif Safieh

Afif Safieh is a Palestinian diplomat. He is currently the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States, after serving fifteen years as Palestine's representative to the United Kingdom. He served as deputy director of the Palestine Liberation Organization Observer Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva. He also worked as a staff member in Yasser Arafat's office in Beirut, in charge of European Affairs and UN institutions.

Safieh was a researcher at the Centre for European Studies in the Catholic University of Louvain. He served as PLO representative to the Netherlands, and was involved in the 1988 Stockholm negotiations that led to the first official and direct American-Palestinian dialogue.

Source - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afif_Safieh
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