The talks in Madrid in October 1991,…

October 1991 CE

The talks in Madrid in October 1991, Sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia) are the first direct official talks between Israel and its neighbors since the Camp David era.

Three "tracks" are created under U.S. auspices that seek to achieve peace treaties between Israel and Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria; an interim Palestinian self-government for Gaza and the West Bank (the Palestinian team this time meets the Israeli specifications); and European, Japanese, and Arab support for regional economic cooperation and arms control.

The talks, conducted in various locations, stall after a promising start.

From the time of the opening round of talks at Madrid in the fall of 1991, Ashrawi emerges, through her speeches and news conferences as well as in behind-the-scenes diplomacy, as the representative of a new spirit of Palestinian pragmatism.

The Palestinians demand statehood rather than autonomy, and ...

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