Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 7/1 - Transcript of interview, 1993, with Ahmed Aurei, PLO Minister of Finance, conducted for Panorama

Typescript transcript of BBC Television 'Panorama' interview with Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala), economic assistant to Yasir Arafat and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Minister of Finance, describing the meetings which led to the establishment of talks, between the PLO and Israel, in Oslo, Norway, involving Yair Hirschfeld, Israeli academic, Uri Savir, Director General of Israeli Foreign Ministry 1993-1996, and later Joel Singer, Legal Advisor to the Israeli Foreign Affairs Department, (1992-1993); the development of a formula for the talks; the role of Terje Rød Larsen; the development of the Declaration of Principles (DOP); discussion of mutual recognition of the PLO and the State of Israel; issues to be dealt with in final status talks and economic implications of the agreement, (1992-1993). 26pp