Summary
The senior Palestine Liberation Organization official — described in the study as a future Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister (2003-2006) — who was the PLO’s principal in the “Oslo channel” of 1992-1993 that produced the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: Part V (1989-2000), PDF p.50).
Details
- The Oslo channel was facilitated in 1992 by Terje Rød-Larsen primarily with Qureia (Abu Ala) and Israeli academic Yair Hirschfeld, standing in for Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin (PDF p.50).
- The private Oslo talks began in earnest on 20 January 1993 under the guidance of Norway’s Foreign Minister Johan Jørgen Holst and concluded in late August 1993; with an indirect contact between Israel and the PLO established at the highest level, the parties agreed on the “Gaza and Jericho first” approach and to initiate official negotiations (PDF p.50).
- The study cross-references the “permanent status” work done at Stockholm in 1995 in the note on the channel (note 101/, PDF p.50).
Related pages
Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: Part V (1989-2000), Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, Oslo Accords, Terje Rød-Larsen, Beilin/Abu-Masen Paper