A little boy stands by a poster asking for the "Palestinian people's right of return to their homeland" outside the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 07 November 2004. The condition of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains unchanged in the military hospital where he has been in a coma since last 03 November, the medical service of the French army said today. Arafat was admitted for treatment for an unidentified blood disorder a nine days ago after being evacuated from his West Bank headquarters. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

(Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

(Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

A picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is pined on a Moroccan flag outside the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 07 November 2004. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

A journalist reads the news as people demonstrate their support to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat outside the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 07 November 2004. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

Cables are displayed on the road to bring electricity to the media caravans parked in the street of the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 07 November 2004. Journalists from all over the world have been waiting for more than a week for any information about Yasser Arafat's condition which remains unchanged according to the medical service of the French army. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

    PARIS, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier affirmed Sunday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is "alive" and in a "very complex, very serious but stable condition".

    He also announced that three Palestinian leaders, acting Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Mahmud Abbas and Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei and Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath are expected to arrive Monday in Paris to visit Yasser Arafat, who was admitted on Oct. 29 in the Percy military hospital in the southwestern Paris suburb of Clamart.

    "Yasser Arafat is receiving treatment, good treatment in France,in line with the wishes of his friends and family. He is alive, ina very serious, stable condition," French private radio RTL and private television LCI quoted Barnier as saying.

    "Tomorrow Abu Mazen (Abbas), Abu Alaa (Qurei) and Nabil Shaathare coming to Paris to visit their chief, Yasser Arafat, and I will receive them tomorrow afternoon to continue dialog with them,a frank dialog," he said.

    The French minister said the US election paved the way for theresumption of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation. "Now things areclear. President Bush was reelected and I am rather certain that the Americans will be willing and need to throw themselves to relaunch the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians."

    Barnier supports elections in Palestine and said that the European Union was ready to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority's legitimacy. Enditem