DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Question
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Oslo Accords
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Clinton Talks
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Peace talks 1
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Peace talks 2
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Detailed explanation-1: -On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO ) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord, ” at the White House.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stated goals of the Oslo Accords were among other things, Palestinian interim Self-Government (not the Palestinian Authority (PA), but the Palestinian Legislative Council) and a permanent settlement of unresolved issues within five years, based on Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
Detailed explanation-3: -The agreement, officially titled the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP), was signed on the White House lawn on 13 September 1993. Various “transfers of power and responsibilities” in the Gaza Strip and West Bank from Israel to the Palestinians took place in the mid-1990s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Also referred to as the Oslo Agreements, or, simply, “Oslo.” The Oslo Accords are a series of agreements that launched the Oslo Process, aimed at achieving a comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).