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Date(s)
- 1997 Jul 20 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
60pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Walid Moualem, Syrian Ambassador to the US 1990-2000, member of the Syrian negotiating team since the Madrid Conference, Oct 1991 and head of the Syrian delegation to the peace talks with Israel since Jul 1994, discussing Syrian Israel talks involving Gen Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli Chief of Staff 1995-1998, Hikmat Shihabi, Syrian Chief of Staff 1973-1998, Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister 1992-1995, Farouk al-Shar'a, Syrian Foreign Minister 1984-, Uri Savir, Director General, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1993-1996 and National Coordinator for Peace Negotiations for Israel 1995-1996, and Joel Singer, Legal Advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Gen Uzi Dayan, Israeli Director of the General Staff Planning Branch 1993-1996, Dennis Ross, Director of Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State 1989-1992, and Martin Indyk, US Ambassador to Israel (1995-1996). Also comments on issues of normalisation and security arrangements; the impact on the talks of assassination of Rabin, Nov 1995, talks on Lebanese ceasefire at Wye Plantation, Maryland, Dec 1995-Feb1996; and the suspension of talks with Israel following the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister, Jun 1996. 60pp