French authorities have handed over the medical file of the recently deceased Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to his left wife Suha Arafat.

Suha's lawyer said on Friday that Suha is deciding whether to make the file public to stop all those rumors of what caused Arafat's death.

French authorities earlier indicated they would hand over the file to Arafat's nephew, Nasser al-Qidwa. Al-Qidwa was reportedly traveling to Paris Friday as an emissary of the Palestinian leadership, which has promised to make the records public.

Qidwa had been expected to hand over the medical file to a Palestinian council set up to investigate the causes of Arafat's death.

(CRI.com November 20, 2004)