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Arafat: I can be a Mandela

2004-10-05 12:39

Cairo - Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that like South Africa's Nelson Mandela he aims to lead his people to independence before finally handing over power, in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.

"I am ready to be a Nelson Mandela. I agree, but only after the establishment of a Palestinian state which I will preside over to start with and then leave to others," he told the London-based Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

Arafat said he would in any case bow to the decisions of the Palestinian leadership at large over whether to run in elections planned for next year.

"Whatever the Palestinian leadership decides, I accept. After all, I will not impose myself, and Abu Ammar commits himself to (respect) whatever decision is taken by the Palestinian leadership," he said, using his own nom-de-guerre.

In 1994, Mandela became the first elected president of post-apartheid South Africa. He stepped five years later in keeping with a pledge to serve only a single term.

- AFP

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