Tag: Yasser Arafat

Ramallah : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid a wreath at the mausoleum of Yaser Arafat, the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and the first President of the Palestinian Authority, soon after arriving here. The mausoleum complex consists of Arafat's burial chamber, a prayer pavilion and landscaped gardens -- all situated in a 6,550 sq. m. site. Palestine Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah received Modi as the latter alighted from a chopper that brought him to Ramallah from Amman, Jordan. This is the first ever prime ministerial visit from...