Oslo Accords

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferred…and Algiers in 1984. He sat on the Palestine National Council from 1968 and on the PLO Central Council and Executive Committee from 1987 to 1991. He opposed the Oslo Accords, but insisted that the PLO remained the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and had to be revived rather than abandoned.…

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredIn 1996, after the Oslo Accords made it possible, the poet Mourid Barghouti returned to Ramallah for the first time since 1967, when — away at university in Cairo — he had been barred from coming home.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredThe uprising placed the Palestinian question back at the center of international attention and formed part of the background to the Madrid Conference of 1991 and the Oslo Accords of 1993.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredHe returned in 1993 under the Oslo Accords, and in 1994 became secretary-general of Fatah in the West Bank.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredHe helped draft the texts ratified by the PLO's bodies, including the Declaration of Independence of 15 November 1988, opposed the Madrid conference and rejected the Oslo Accords, calling instead for an international conference under UN auspices.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredBut Madrid shattered the taboo on direct negotiation and created the diplomatic cover within which, months later, Israel and the PLO opened the secret channel that produced the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredThe follow-up Interim Agreement of 28 September 1995 ('Oslo II') created the Palestinian Authority, provided for Palestinian elections, and divided the West Bank into Areas A and B under Palestinian civil administration and Area C — about 60 percent of the territory — under full Israeli control.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredThe follow-up Interim Agreement of 28 September 1995 ('Oslo II') created the Palestinian Authority, provided for Palestinian elections, and divided the West Bank into Areas A and B under Palestinian civil administration and Area C — about 60 percent of the territory — under full Israeli control.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredThe Oslo Accords are the interim agreements negotiated secretly in Norway and signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993 and 1995, establishing mutual recognition, creating the Palestinian Authority, and setting a five-year framework for a final settlement that was never concluded.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredRabin was assassinated in November 1995; settlement expansion continued through the interim years; the Camp David summit of July 2000 ended without agreement; and the Second Intifada soon followed.

Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: inferredOn 13 September 1993, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn.