ARAFAT YASSER: (1929-2004)

ARAFAT YASSER: (1929-2004) Palestinian political leader who served as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation 1969-2004 and as President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1994. T.L.S., Y. Arafat, one page, 4to, n.p., 19th April 1978, to Klaus J. Birkner, on the printed stationery of the President´s Office, Executive Committee, Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat acknowledges receipt of his correspondent´s letter and continues to remark ´We appreciate your support of our just struggle to liberate our country Palestine and create a unitary democratic non secterian (sic) state after liberation. Our struggle is long, but we shall be victorious´, further sending a signed photograph, information material, the flag of Palestine and the emblem of Fatah (none of the enclosures are present). Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, and with a few light, minor creases, VG