Chancellor of Germany (1996 – 2005)

“Huge loss that the Palestinian people have suffered”

In a letter to Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei’, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder stated that the passing of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was “a huge loss that the Palestinian people have suffered. . . . Arafat pursued [during] all his life the independence of the Palestinian people and a sovereign and viable Palestinian state.”