Arafat to pick up choppers in Lithuania

  • 1999-07-15
VILNIUS (BNS) - A delegation headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was scheduled to arrive in Lithuania for a brief visit July 14, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported.Arafat will have dinner with President Valdas Adamkus before jetting to Helsinki later in the day.The Palestinian leader is coming to get two Mi-17 helicopters, which are owned by the Palestinian local government and were flown to Kaunas in early May for repairs by Lithuania's Avia Baltika.The Lithuanian aircraft company had won a competition and signed a contract with the Palestinian government on overhaul repairs o...
 
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