'First, following a ceremonial opening session, bilateral and direct talks will commence with each of Israel's neighbours to reach a contractual peace agreement. We have accordingly held talks with the US Secretary of State and his aides about the following guidelines: 'Israel is committed to the Camp David Accords. Since the current immigration wave began in the middle of 1989, approximately 357,000 immigrants - and may there be many more - have arrived. Thousands of immigrants are being absorbed in Eretz Yisrael with open arms by the governmental institutions, by volunteer organizations, and by the general public. The gates of the Soviet Union are wide open and the aliyah from there is continuing steadily. The gathering of the Jewish diaspora and the building of Eretz Yisrael - the two pillars of the Jewish visions - have reached unprecedented heights in the recent period. Many generations of our predecessors would probably be jealous of our good fortune to experience such exciting and uplifting events, events that were yearned for and prayed for, and that only we have lived to witness. Chairman, it has fallen to us to live in a time when many events of great historic import have taken place in a short period. On 7 October 1991, in his speech at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Prime Minister of Israel, Itzhak Shamir, said, inter alia , To the Knesset, Jerusalem, 7 October 1991 37įoreign Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic, Farouk al-Sharaa.

32įoreign Minister of Lebanon, Fares Boueiz. Palestinian representative, Haidar Abdel Shafi. 23įoreign Minister of Jordan, Kamel Abu Jaber. Representative of the European Community, Hans van den Broek. Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez. Peace Conference, Madrid, 30 October - 1 November 1991. Statements made at the opening session of the Middle East Peace Conference, United Nations Headquarters, 29 October 1991. Middle East Peace Conference, Damascus, 24 October 1991. Statement by Arab Foreign Ministers on the Peace Conference, United Nations Headquarters, 19 October 1991. Remarks by the United Nations Secretary-General on the Middle East Text of the invitation to the Middle East Peace Conference,ġ8 October 1991. Joint statement on the restoration of diplomatic relationsīetween the USSR and Israel, Jerusalem, 18 October 1991.

Jordanian General National Congress, Amman, 12 October 1991. 1Įxcerpts from the address of King Hussein of Jordan to the

To the Knesset, Jerusalem, 7 October 1991. iiiĮxcerpts from the address of Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir

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