ANNAN LAYS WREATH ON ARAFAT'S GRAVE

U.N. GENERAL SECRETARY KOFI ANNAN IS IN ISRAEL FOR THE RE-DEDICATION OF YAD VASHEM, THE SHOAH MUSEUM. SO WHAT DOES HE DO? HE HONORS ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY'S MOST NOTORIOUS MURDERERS OF JEWS. UN-BE-LIEV-ABLE.

Annan visits late Arafat's grave in Ramallah
RAMALLAH, March 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Visiting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday laid a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Annan, who is due to attend the inauguration of Israel new Holocaust museum on Tuesday, was scheduled to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and Foreign Minister Nasser al-Qidweh. Earlier on Monday, Annan met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

He also visited the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, where he bade farewell to Peter Hansen, UNRWA outgoing Commissioner-General.

Accompanied by his wife, he laid a wreath at the monument of two UNRWA staff members killed by Israeli soldiers' gunfire in the West Bank in 2002. Annan praised the UNRWA staff for the "courage and devotion" they bring to their jobs in "very difficult and sometimes dangerous situations".

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