What were the details of the Oslo Accords?
On September 13, 1993 representatives of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the “Declaration of Principles On Interim Self-Government Arrangements”, a document also known as the “Oslo Accords”. They were signed at a Washington ceremony hosted by US President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1993, during which Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended decades as sworn enemies with an uneasy handshake. This agreement was the fruit of secret negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, represented by the PLO, following the Madrid Conference in 1991. The Oslo Accords contain a set of mutually agreed-upon general principles regarding a five year interim period of Palestinian self-rule. So-called “permanent status issues” are deferred to later negotiations, to begin no later than the third year of the interim period. The permanent status negotiations were intended to lead to an agreement that would be implemented
