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Excerpt from Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, September 20, 1995
Chairman gilman. The committee will come to order. This morn ing's hearing is on the Middle East peace process. It is our imten tion to hold such a hearing at the request of a number Of organiza tions and people who are concerned about it. With our committee's legislative responsibilities regarding our foreign affairs program and agencies largely completed, we are pleased that we could schedule today's hearing despite the heavy calendar in the Congress. We look forward to the testimony of our witnesses. Two years ago this month Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and plo Chairman, Yasir Arafat, signed a Declaration of Principles on interim self-government for the disputed territories. Since then we have seen some other positive developments in the Middle East. Israel and Jordan have signed a peace treaty. Bilat eral talks have continued between Israel and Syria and between Is rael and Lebanon; The Gulf Cooperation Counties announced that they were lifting the secondary and tertiary boycotts against Israel. But the center of attention has been the negotiations between Is rael and the plo. Under the declaration, Prime Minister Rabin recognized the plo as the representative Of the Palestinian people and agreed to negotiate with the plo. The plo Chairman, Yasir Arafat, recognized Israel's right to exist and accepted un. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
