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Date(s)
- 1997 Jul 5 (Creation)
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Item
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43pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Yasser Abd Rabbo, Palestinian negotiator, member of the Executive Council of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and head of PLO Department of information and culture, describing the meeting involving Yasir Arafat, Chairman of Executive Committee of the PLO, and Aleksandr Bessmertnykh, Soviet Foreign Minister 1991, in Geneva to discuss conditions for an international conference on the Middle East; discussions with Assad, President of Syria, and Shar'a, Prime Minister of Syria, concerning Palestinian participation at the conference; the role of Hanan Ashrawi and Faisal Husseini in gaining support for joint Palestinian-Jordan delegation, and the formula agreed between them for the Madrid Conference, (Oct 1991); the impact of the announcement of the Oslo talks on the Palestinian delegation at the Washington talks (1992-1993); Palestinian policy on Gaza and Jericho discussed at Oslo and telephone negotiations between Israel and PLO, 18-19 Aug 1993; modification of Oslo agreement in Washington prior to signing ceremony (Sep 1993); and comments on the negotiations between Arafat and Shimon Peres concerning the Hebron, at Taba, Eilat (Oslo II Agreement, Sep 1995). 43pp