Arafat addresses UN after 19 years

1993 - Palestine Liberation Organisation chairman Yasser Arafat returned to the United Nations headquarters 19 years after his first appearance put the PLO on the world’s diplomatic map. In November 1974, he had addressed the UN General Assembly, with an empty gun holster peeping from beneath his khaki jacket. “I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hands,” he had declared.