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Exact day17 September 1978
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 17 September 1978 Egypt and Israel signed, with the United States as witness, a framework for peace that proposed five years of limited self-government for the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinians rejected it, and the UN General Assembly declared that it had no validity in so far as it purported to decide their future.
The framework, signed in Washington on 17 September 1978 by Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin after meeting with Jimmy Carter at Camp David, provided for transitional arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza for no more than five years, under which the Israeli military government would be withdrawn once a self-governing authority had been elected by the inhabitants; Jordan was to be invited to join the negotiations.1
Link to this chapterThe UN backgrounder records that Palestinians rejected the Camp David formula as denying them their rights, including self-determination, and as concluded without their participation and against their wishes; it made no mention of Jerusalem’s status or the PLO’s role. In resolution 34/65 B of 29 November 1979 the General Assembly declared that the accords had no validity in so far as they purported to determine the future of the Palestinian people.23
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Evidence
United Nations · section: A. West Bank and Gaza, 1(a)
Original-language quotation · enthere should be transitional arrangements for the West Bank and Gaza for a period not exceeding five yearsLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: A. The peace treaty of March 1979 between Egypt and Israel
Original-language quotation · enPalestinians rejected the Camp David formula, stating that it denied them their inherent and natural rights including the right to self-determinationLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: A. The peace treaty of March 1979 between Egypt and Israel
Original-language quotation · enthe Camp David accords and other agreements have no validity in so far as they purport to determine the future of the Palestinian peopleLink to this citationdocument · United Nations
The framework’s text, a non-UN document held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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document · United Nations
The United Nations backgrounder on the question of Palestine from 1979 to 1990, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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