Arafat and wife Suha Arafat.Suha insisted that her husband was on the road to recovery and would return home but "Abbas, Qureiand Shaath, who are trying to inherit his power, want to bury Arafat alive." Suha is one of only a handful of people who have been authorized to see the 75-year-old Palestinian leader in the last 10 days. (Xinhua file photo) Arafat's wife Suha Arafat accompanies him to France for treatment.  (Xinhua/AFP file photo) 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. (Xinhua/AFP Photo By Joel Robine) 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. 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. Arafat was admitted for treatment for an unidentified blood disorder a nine days ago after being evacuated from his West Bank headquarters and has been in a coma since last 03 November. (Xinhua/AFP Photo By Joel Robine) 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.  (Xinhua/AFP Photo By Joel Robine) Mahmoud Abbas (1st R), general secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), chairs a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah Nov. 6, 2004. Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday that preparatory works have completed on the Israeli side to bury Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza in case of his death.(Xinhua photo/Gao Xueyu)

    RAMALLAH, Nov. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian leaders who had planned to visit ailing leader Yasser Arafat in Paris later Monday have canceled their trip, head of Arafat's office Tayeb Abdel Rahim said.

    Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas, No. 2 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had planned to head for Paris Monday.

    The cancellation came after Arafat's wife Suha Arafat accused them of traveling to Paris with plans to bury their leader "alive".

    Rahim told a press conference that the three Palestinian leaders wanted to go to France to give thanks to French President Jacques Chirac and to get direct information about Arafat's condition from his doctors.

    Since Arafat has been transferred to the Percy Military Hospital outside Paris on Oct. 29, Qurei and Abbas have been sharing powers to run the Palestinian daily affairs.

    The Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite TV channel said earlier that Arafat's medical condition was critical, adding that "his health condition can have all possibilities."

    In an interview with al-Jazeera, Suha insisted that her husband was on the road to recovery and would return home but "Abbas, Qureiand Shaath, who are trying to inherit his power, want to bury Arafat alive."

    Suha is one of only a handful of people who have been authorized to see the 75-year-old Palestinian leader in the last 10 days. Enditem