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Article: Arab League chief Amr Moussa elected as chief of new launched Arafat Foundation
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- February 26, 2008
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Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa was chosen Tuesday to head the newly formed Yasser Arafat Foundation, charged with preserving the former Palestinian leader's legacy and carrying out humanitarian activities.
Some 50 Palestinian leaders, Arab politicians and intellectuals, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, gathered in Cairo to launch the foundation which is building a memorial complex to preserve Arafat's effects in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"The name of Arafat is another name of Palestine," said Abbas in an address. "He put Palestine back on the (world's) political map," he said.
The Arab League chief and former ...