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Date(s)
- 1997 Jan 26 (Creation)
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Item
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39pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Hanan Ashwari, Palestinian academic and campaigner for Palestinian rights, describing the Palestinian response to proposed visit of James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State 1989-1992, to Israel; discussions between the Palestinians and Baker concerning linking of US loan guarantees for Israel to cessation of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories (Mar 1991); meeting with Baker in Amman, Jordan to discuss the joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the proposed international conference (Madrid Conference); secret trip to Algiers with Faisal Husseini to address the Palestine National Council (PNC) (28 Sep 1991); the writing of the Palestinian –Jordanian speech to the Madrid Conference and visits of Palestinian delegation to Tunis and Algiers to meet with Arafat during the conference (Oct 1991); effect of Israeli expulsion of 415 Hammas leaders to Lebanon on the Palestinian Israeli talks in Washington, (Dec 1992); effect of secret Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Israeli talks in Oslo on their Washington negotiations (Jun 1993), and comments on the Declaration of Principals developed in Oslo (Aug 1993). 39pp