Face to Face: Lauren Booth meets Afif Safieh: Future of Palestine? (2)

The show was broadcast on Wednesday 18 November 2009 from Press TV
Host: Lauren Booth
Guest: Afif Safieh Former Palestinian General Delegate to the UK and Moscow
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Biographical Information:
Afif Safieh was born in Al Quds (Jerusalem) in 1950.
• Compilations of his articles have appeared in two books: 
o 'Self determination', published by Al-Fajr printing press, Jerusalem, 1986 (jointly with his wife Christ'l Leclercq).
o 'One people Too Many?' published in the Hague in 1987.
• In October 2009: Afif Safieh was invited by Dr Nabil Shaath, Fateh Commissioner for International Relations , to be Deputy Commissioner for International Relations of the Fateh Movement.
• August 2009: was elected during the 6th conference of Fateh member of the Revolutionary Council, the Parliament of the Fateh Movement.
• From May 2008 until May 2009 he was Palestinian Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
• In October 2005, he assumed his duty as Head of the PLO Mission in Washington.
• Nominated Palestinian General Delegate to the Holy See, he presented his letter of credentials to His Holiness Pope John ll on November 6, 1995.
• He was nominated, Palestinian General Delegate to the United Kingdom in September 1990.
• He was involved in November-December 1988 in the Stockholm negotiations that led to the official and direct American-Palestinian dialogue.
• From 1987 until 1990, he was PLO representative to the Netherlands.
• Between 1985 and 1987, he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University.
• From 1978 until 1981, he was staff member in President Arafat's office in Beirut, in charge of European Affairs and UN Institutions.
• From 1976 until 1978, he was Deputy Director of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Observer Mission to the United Nations, Geneva.

• In 1974, he finished his 'Cycle Superieur (3eme cycle) en Sciences Politiques' from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris.

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Afif a wonderful advocate - why is Lauren wearing a head scarf ?