PLO chief Yasser Arafat met Monday with Syria’s top leaders and with officials of the guerrilla group who decided he will head the Palestine Liberation Organization’s delegation to a summit of Arab nations.
An official source said Arafat held a two-hour session with President Hafez Assad and had separate talks with Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam.
The meetings with the Syrian officials focused on events in the Middle East with emphasis on the situation in Lebanon, the source said.
The Khaddam-Arafat meeting was also aimed at coordinating viewpoints between the Palestinians and the Syrian leadership before the Nov. 25 summit, the source said.
Attending the meeting were PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and representatives from Lebanon’s Moslem leftist militias.
The sources said the three sides agreed that both the PLO and the leftists should move heavy weapons, ammunition depots and training camps out of residential areas.
Agreements to move heavy weapons out of civilian areas in Beirut and other cities have been reached before but never implemented because of fears that it would make them easier targets for the Israelis.