Palestinian officials evaluated the sixth meeting of the quadripartite committee on the 1967 Displaced Persons with a modicum of optimism. In this meeting, held in Cairo on 14 February 1996, the delegates of the four parties (Israel, PLO, Egypt, Jordan) succeeded in overcoming the deadlock of previous sessions by shifting the agenda of the negotiations: it was decided to suspend the futile debate about who is a Displaced Person and to focus from now on the modalities of repatriation. Six existing records were identified to serve as the basis for defining the population of the 1967 Displaced Persons, among them UNRWA records, the Egyptian population registry for Palestinian refugees after 1967 and the records of the Jordanian Department of Palestinian Affairs. The seventh meeting was scheduled to be held in Bethlehem on March 20, 1996, but was canceled due to the Hamas operations in Israel. [Salim Tamari/Palestinian delegation]