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PLO stays on sidelines

Palestinian diplomats at the United Nations were licking their wounds yesterday following the blocking of a resolution before the General Assembly that would have granted Palestine the status virtually of a full member state.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation will have to continue to make do with the observer status first granted to it in 1974.

- David Usborne, New York

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