LEBANON: PALESTINIAN LEADERS -- DR. GEORGE HABASH -- CLASS FOR NATIONALISATION OF FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES IN ARAB WORLD.

Record ID: 191326

  • Title: LEBANON: PALESTINIAN LEADERS -- DR. GEORGE HABASH -- CLASS FOR NATIONALISATION OF FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES IN ARAB WORLD.
  • Date: 1st May 1975
  • Summary: 1. CU Dr. Habash on platform 0.05 2. CU Crowd clapping 0.14 3. GV Dr. Habash speaking 0.30 4. CU Crowd listening (3 shots) 0.46 5. CU Dr. Habash speaking and crowd clapping 0.56 Initials CL/0113 CL/0120 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 1975 13:00
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  • Location: TELL EL ZAATR, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVAXFLFAH7K601TRKO9UH4CF41S
  • Story Text: The leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Dr. George Habash, on Thursday (1 May) called for the nationalisation of foreign oil companies operating in Arab countries without compensation.

    Speaking to cheering Palestinians at the Tell El Zaatar refugee camp in Lebanon, he called for a "national policy" of investing funds in Arab countries.

    He also re-affirmed that his Front, and others like it, would never recognise a "zionist presence on Palestinian soil".

    He said any Palestinian leadership going to Geneva for talks would not represent "our destitute masses", and that the establishment of a Palestinian National Authority through Geneva was a misleading statement.
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