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Date(s)
- 2005 Mar 9 (Creation)
- 2004 Nov 1 (Creation)
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Item
Extent
62pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of two filmed interviews with Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel 1999-2001, describing meeting Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, at the Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Barcelona, Spain, 1995; meeting William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton, US President 1993-2001, at Camp David, 15 Jul 1999; negotiations with Hafez al-Assad President of Syria 1971-2000, Feb-Mar 2000; negotiations at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Maryland, USA, 11-25 Jul 2000, including debates within his own negotiation team, discussions with President Clinton and Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright, US Secretary of State 1997-2001, the difficulties of negotiating with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the decision to offer divided sovereignty in Jerusalem; Barak’s meeting with Yasser Arafat at Kochav Yair, Israel, 25 Sept 2000; the visit of Ariel Sharon, leader of the rival Likud party 1999-2005, to the Temple Mount and al-Asqa mosque, Jerusalem, Israel, and the subsequent violent demonstrations, 28-29 Sept 2000; cease fire negotiations at the residence of the US Ambassador, Paris, France, 4 Oct 2000.