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]

 
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