Documents

* RECENT DOCUMENTS

* THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL

* UNITED NATIONS AND PALESTINE

* PALESTINIAN DOCUMENTS

* INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY

RECENT DOCUMENTS

* The Geneva Accord
Unofficial draft treaty negotiated by a group of Israelis and Palestinians. Issued October 2003.

* Aqaba summit 
Statements by King Abdullah, Ariel Sharon, Mahmoud Abbas and George Bush. 4 June 2003.

* Road map: Israeli reservations 

* Middle East "road map"
Issued on 30 April 2003. Full text.

* Report of the UN Secretary-General on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities (1 August 2002)
Also in PDF format. See also press release for background and summary of contents.

* Speech by President Bush (24 June 2002)
The president called for new Palestinian institutions and new leaders.

* Security Council Resolution 1405 (19 April 2002)
Situation in Jenin refugee camp; fact-finding mission.

* Joint statement on the Middle East (10 April 2002)
By the US, EU, Russia and the United Nations.

* The Arab Peace Initiative (28 March 2002)
Final version of the peace proposal initiated by Crown Prince Abdullah and approved by the Arab summit in Beirut.

* Zinni's ceasefire plan (submitted 26 March 2002)
Full text, plus Palestinian negotiators' critique of the document. Zinni's proposal would have allowed Israel to continue attacks Palestinian presidential buildings, security headquarters and prisons "in self-defence to an imminent terrorist attack".

* The Tenet Plan (agreed 13 June, 2001)
Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and security plan negotiated by CIA director George Tenet.

* Mitchell Commission (published 20 May, 2001)
Full text of the fact-finding committee's report mapped out a plan for a ceasefire and confidence-building measures, leading to a resumption of peace talks.

* The Taba talks (January 2001)
Notes by EU envoy Miguel Moratinos. The Israeli-Palestinian talks held at Taba, Egypt, in January 2001 - shortly before the election of Ariel Sharon as Israeli prime minister - made good progress on many issues that had been left unresolved at the Camp David summit six months earlier.

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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL

* Israel's Independence

* British White Paper on Palestine (1939)

* British White Paper on Palestine (June 1922)

* Balfour Declaration (1917)

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UNITED NATIONS AND PALESTINE

* General Assembly Resolution 194 ("Right of return")

* Security Council Resolution 242 (22 Nov 1967)

* Security Council Resolution 338 (22 Oct 1973)

* Security Council Resolution 1397 (12 Mar 2002)

* Security Council Resolution 1402 (30 Mar 2002)

* UN General Assembly resolution ES-10/10 (7 May 2002)

"Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory". 

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PALESTINIAN DOCUMENTS

* The Covenant of Omar

* Sheikh Yassin's Last Letter

* PLO Charter

* Hamas Covenant  - 1988

* Cairo Declaration (statement on terrorism) - 7 Nov 1985

* Yasser Arafat's address to the European Parliament  - Strasbourg, 13 Sep 1988

* Palestinian Declaration of Independence  - Algiers, 15 Nov 1988

* Palestine National Council: Political Communique  - Algiers, 15 Nov 1988

* Yasser Arafat's address to the UN General Assembly  ("Gun and olive branch" speech) - 13 Dec 1988

* Yasser Arafat's address to the UN Security Council  - Geneva, 25 May 1990

* Palestinian plan for interim self-government  - Washington, Jan 1992

* Declaration of the Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements  - Washington DC, 13 September 1993.

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INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY

* The Statement of Benjamin Franklin

* Sykes Pico Agreement

* ISRAEL-JORDAN TREATY OF PEACE  - 26 Oct 1994

* THE WYE RIVER  - 28 October 1998

* Oslo I

* Oslo II

* The Camp David Accords  - 17 Sep 1978

* The Tenet Plan  - June 13,2001

* Joint statement in Stockholm (PLO delegation and a group of American Jews) - 7 Dec 1988

* European Community Declaration on the Middle East  - Madrid, 27 Jun 1989

* President George Bush's address to Congress ("New World Order" speech) - 6 Mar 1991

* Invitation to Madrid Peace Conference  - 30 Oct 1991

* Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area  - 4 May 1994

* Fourth Geneva Convention

* Road-map  - December 9th, 2002

* Sharm el-Sheikh

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