Palestinians Agree PM's Powers

World | March 18, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

The Palestinian parliament has passed a bill creating a new prime minister's post and rebuffed attempts by Yasser Arafat to dilute the authority of the new post. Ahead of Tuesday's parliament session, he dropped a demand to retain a say over appointing cabinet ministers. The installation of a new prime minister was a condition set by the United States for movement on an internationally-backed peace plan aimed at ending more than two years of killing that have left thousands of Palestinians and Isralis dead.

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