MIDDLE EAST: Arafat sends message to Spanish prime minister

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

RAMALLAH, Feb 28 2003 (IPS) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has sent a letter to Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar in reply to a letter he received from him yesterday.

Nabil Abu Redaina, advisor to the Palestinian president for information affairs, said Arafat handed over the message to the Spanish consul general in Jerusalem, José Maria Sari, during an audience today at the Palestinian headquarters in Ramallah.

Arafat also received today the representative of the UN secretary general in the Palestinian territories Terry Larson.

Talks during the meeting dealt with the situation in the Palestinian territories in the wake of the recent Israeli escalation.