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Arafat funeral: important absences due to air traffic congestion

Cairo, Egypt - British, Spanish, German and Italian deputations blocked at Cairo Airport

A lot of deputations, among which the British, Spanish, German and Italian didn’t arrive on time to the funeral cerimony for Yasser Arafat (see AVIONEWS): the air station was overcrowded because of lot of foreign deputations landing. Some plane have been blocked on runway over 45 minutes. So the British Minister for Foreign Affairs Jack Straw, those German Joschka Fischer and those Spanish Miguel A...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 107501
Rome, Italy, 11/12/2004 15:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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