Volume 49, December, 2003 International, Page 45762
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Dec 2003 - PALESTINE
An unofficial Middle East peace plan, known as the Geneva Initiative, was officially launched in the Swiss city on Dec. 1 [see pp. 45675; 45720]. The plan, devised by Israeli opposition politicians and senior Palestinian officials, contained all the elements of a final “two state” settlement of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Jimmy Carter (former US President), Lech Walesa (former Polish President), and Northern Ireland's John Hume were among the international figures who joined 400 representatives of Israeli and Palestinian society for the launch of the plan. In a statement read out on his behalf, Palestinian President Yassir Arafat praised the plan as “a brave initiative that opens the door to hope”. However, the Israeli government had been fiercely critical of the plan, calling it subversive, freelance diplomacy. All four members of the so-called Middle East Quartet behind the stalled ...

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