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Event · Diplomacy28 September 1995

The Interim Agreement (Oslo II)

الاتفاق المرحلي (أوسلو الثانية)

Exact day28 September 1995

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When
28 September 1995Exact day
Where
Gaza Strip, West Bank
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82 · Defining momentDeclaration, resolution or agreement
Sources
12 cited passages

On 28 September 1995 Israel and the PLO signed in Washington the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, transferring powers from Israel’s military government to an elected Palestinian Council for a period ending 4 May 1999.

The signing

The United Nations study records that on 28 September 1995 the Israeli–Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was signed in Washington by Prime Minister Rabin and Foreign Minister Peres for Israel and Chairman Arafat for the PLO, witnessed by President Clinton and representatives of Egypt, Jordan, Norway, the Russian Federation and the European Union.1

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An elected council

The agreement provided for the transfer of powers from Israel’s military government and its civil administration to a Palestinian Interim Self-Governing Authority: an 82-member Council and the head of its executive, elected by the Palestinians of the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a transitional period not exceeding 4 May 1999.2

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Within a yearThe first Palestinian general elections, The tunnel under al-Aqsa

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  1. The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part V: 1989–2000 ↗

    United Nations · section: D. Interim Agreement (Oslo II)

    Original-language quotation · en
    On 28 September 1995 the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was signed in Washington, D.C.
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  2. The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part V: 1989–2000 ↗

    United Nations · section: D. Interim Agreement (Oslo II)

    Original-language quotation · en
    The new Interim Self-Governing Authority would be composed of an 82-member Council and the Head (“Ra’ees” in Arabic) of its Executive Authority
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document · United Nations

The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part V: 1989–2000

The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, part V, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.

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