Is Peace Possible Between Israel and PLO?
After a long diplomatic work by U.S. president Bill Clinton, Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO president Yasir Arafat accept convening to Washington, and signing a preliminary peace treaty between the two nations. The signing ceremony takes place on September 13, at the White House. Probably the symbolically most significant moment is when the leaders of two peoples, which have been at war for almost 50 years, shake their hands. Peace in Middle East has never been so close since the 1978 Camp David Accords. The agreement is that Palestinians will administer the occupied territories for the next 5 years, while discussing further peace negotiations. A Difficult Year for Yeltsin Russian president Boris Yeltsin, and his economic reforms, face a violent opposition from those Communists still present in the Parliament, like Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov and vice president Aleksandr Rutskoi. Yeltsin then decides to dissolve the Russian Parliament and to call for new elections. Khasbul
