Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 7/9 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian delegation member

Typescript transcript of interview with Ghassan Khatib, member of Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference 1991, and Washington talks (1991-1993), describing Palestinian response to visit of James Baker, US Secretary of State 1989-1992, to Jerusalem, (Mar 1991); planning for Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference (Oct-Nov1991), attendance at the Conference, the role of the PLO and visits of the Palestinian delegation to Tunis and Algiers during the conference; the Israeli Palestinian bilateral talks in Washington, including relations between the Palestinian delegation and the PLO leadership in Tunis, the resignation of Hanan Ashrawi, Faisal Husseini and Saeb Erekat (Dec 1992), restarting the Washington talks (Apr 1993), and their cessation with the announcement of the Oslo agreement (Aug 1993). 43pp