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Date(s)
- 2005 Jan 24 (Creation)
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Item
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6pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Yosef ‘Yossi’ Beilin, Israeli Minister of Justice, 1999-2001 and Chairman of the Meretz-Yachad Party, 2004-2007, describing attempts to begin Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the period 1996-1999; the holding of regular meetings between Beilin and Palestinians Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), later Prime Minster, 2003, and President, 2005-2008, of the Palestinian National Authority, and Saeb Erekat, Head of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Steering and Monitoring Committee, 1995-2003 at the home of Egyptian Ambassador Mohammed Bassiouni (the Bassiouni Forum), 1998, leading to the Wye Agreement to reinstate implementation of the Interim Agreement of Sept 25, 1995, (the Oslo II Agreement), Oct 1998; the difficulties of holding negotiations in the face of opposition from Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel 1996-1999.