07/11/2004 Palestine-Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas (3rd L) secretary-general of the PLO executive committee speaks to other PLO officials under a portrait and beside the empty chair of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during an emergency meeting at Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 6, 2004. Arafat remained in a critical condition, a senior aide said, despite a media report that he might have opened his eyes and talked to doctors.PHOTO:ALFRED/LEVINE HEIDI