3,500 visitors expected at Congress Palestinians

rotterdam - Expected 3500 Palestinians from across Europe Saturday attended a congress in De Doelen in Rotterdam. The controversial Belgian-Lebanese writer Dyab Abou Jahjah is one of the speakers. Possibly a Dutch parliamentarian also carries the word, but the organization was Friday not name the politician.

The meeting will be attended by an observer from the Public Ministry, which will assess whether publicly any words are used that are in violation of the law.

The conference was organized by the Palestinian Return Center (PRC) in London, which in turn says Palestinian refugees in Europe. In 2007, Congress was also held in Rotterdam. Former Prime Minister Dries van Agt was there at that time with.

On the conference will discuss the so-called Balfour Declaration of 1917. A hundred years ago the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour would thus laid the foundations for 'establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. 'PRC demands apology for it.