Tayeb Abdel Rahim, head of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office, said Monday the ailing president will reject his wife's statement if he hears what she claimed.

In an interview with pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV, Suha Arafat screamed that the Palestinian leaders who planned to visit Arafat in Paris wanted to bury the leader "alive" and inherit his power.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas, No. 2 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been scheduled to fly to Paris Monday but cancelled the visit after Suha's accusation.

Rahim said at a press conference that "the leaders are not Arafat's successors, but his companions."

"What Suha has announced does not represent the Palestinian people or the leadership," he said. "Arafat is not the private property of Suha but that of the entire Palestinian nation."

The 75-year-old veteran leader was transferred to the Percy Military Hospital outside Paris on Oct. 29 after his health condition deteriorated sharply.

Conflicting reports emerged about Arafat's real condition, with some saying Arafat is brain-dead and on life support machines, while others saying Arafat remaining in a critical but stable condition.

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