Ties with India stronger than friendship: Arafat

GAZA CITY, JUNE 18. Notwithstanding the ever-growing Indo-Israeli ties, Palestinian leader, Mr. Yasser Arafat, has said that relations with India were much stronger than friendship.

``It is not friendship, it is stronger than friendship, it is brotherhood, it is very old,'' Mr. Arafat told reporters here on Saturday night after his meeting with Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, who concluded the first leg of his visit to the region today.

Both leaders discussed bilateral issues and the ongoing peace process in the Middle East.

Earlier, Mr. Arafat specially advanced his return to Palestine from the United States by two days to meet Mr. Advani.

Mr. Advani said the decades-old friendship between India and Palestine would continue.

- PTI

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