| Negotiations Update
Multilateral Refugee Working
Group
The Steering Committee of
the multilateral talks met in Montreuil/Switzerland in May 1995 and decided
to postpone all further sessions of the multilateral Refugee Working Group
until September 1995. [Source: Salim Tamari, delegate to the Palestinian
team of the multilaterals]
Four-Party-Committee on
1967 Displaced Persons
On June 7, three months
after the official opening of the negotiations in Amman, Jordanian, Egyptian,
Palestinian and Israeli delegations met in Beersheba for the first follow
up meeting on the return of the 1967 displaced persons. This meeting among
experts received little media attention and ended without concrete results.
The central question of
who is a 1967 displaced person remains controversial. Yossi Hadass, head
of the Israeli delegation, maintained also this time that Israel is willing
to discuss only the return of those personally exiled in 1967. The Israeli
position was rejected by the Palestinian delegation headed by Walid Zaqout
and by the two other Arab delegations. [Source: al-Quds, 8/6/1995] |