No trace of poison has been discovered in the toxicological tests carried out on the deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, his nephew Nasser al-Qidwa said Monday after receiving a copy of his uncle's medical files. (Photo: Xinhua/Reuters)

No trace of poison has been discovered in the toxicological tests carried out on the deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, his nephew Nasser al-Qidwa said Monday after receiving a copy of his uncle's medical files.

"I have not had the time to study the report and obviously I am not competent because I am not a doctor. But two central points remain. There is no clear diagnosis of the reason for the death, and second the toxicological tests were made and no known poison was found," Qidwa told a press conference.

Qidwa, Palestinian representative to the United Nations, noted that the medical report of Arafat handed over at noon by the health service of the French Defense Ministry counts 558 pages and is accompanied with radiographs.

"Yasser Arafat doesn't belong to one person or one family, but to the whole Palestinian people. I'll hand over this report to the Palestinian National Authority and a committee has been designated to study it," he added.

He also said the report "contains all the details related to the medical history. It does not have anything new, no secrets, only the information we were told earlier."

Qidwa had been officially recognized as Arafat's next of kin, alongside his widow Suha and his nine-year-old daughter and given the right to access to the medical information, French Defense Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau said Saturday.

According to the French law, it is the direction of the Percy military hospital at the southwestern Paris suburb of Clamart, where Yasser Arafat died on Nov. 11 after 13 days of hospitalization, to hand over the file after verifying the validity of the request.

The Percy military hospital handed over the medical file to Suha on Friday.