RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 4 (AFP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is not dead, communications minister Azzam al-Ahmed said Thursday, after Israeli media and the Luxembourg premier reported he had passed away in a Paris hospital.
"It is wrong. If the president was dead, the whole world would know," the minister told AFP.
"But it is true that he is a very critical condition," he added.
11/04/2004 16:59 GMT - AFP