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Ministry of education of azerbaijan republic sumgayit state universityCAMP DAVID SUMMIT (2000) AND ITS FAILUREmagistr2021 3 2CAMP DAVID SUMMIT (2000) AND ITS FAILURE
Mirzazade A.K.
Baku Slavic University
E-mail:
ekrem.mirzezade@gmail.com
After successful Camp David negotiations with the United States mediation, held in Camp David,
Maryland, and concluded with signed agreements between Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime
minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, once again the United States intended to take over its
mediator role and achieve an agreement this time between Israel and Palestine.The United States president
Bill Clinton announced his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman of Palestinian
Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat on 5 July 2000 to come to Camp David to maintain the Middle East
peace process and end the long-lasted conflict between the parties. As a chairman of PLO, Yasser Arafat was
trying to postpone the date of the summit to at least August to allow both parties to hold pre-summit
negotiations and get prepared. But U.S. president Bill Clinton and Israeli PM Ehud Barak hastened to hold
the date of the summit, and president Clinton promised that there would not be any blames if things did not
go well. The parties agreed on the date of the summit at last. The summit started on 11 July 2000 and
continued till 25 July 2000.The entire two-week negotiation process was mostly oral. There were no written
official documents, records but only a negotiation text. The list of main issues that were meant to be agreed
on is stated below: 1. Border and security matters; 2. Status of Jerusalem; 3. Refugees .
The Palestinian side demanded full sovereignty over the entire West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the
return of Israel to the June 4, 1967 borders, as previously indicated in UN SC resolution 242. Instead of these
demands, the Israeli delegation refused to accept this interpretation of resolution 242 and considered full
retreating from these areas as a threat to Israel. In response, PM Ehud Barak made his proposal to the
Palestinian side, which consisted of a 9 % annexation of the West Bank in exchange for 1% territory in the
Gaza Strip and part of the Jordan valley. Besides, the prime minister demanded full control of Israel over
Palestinian airspace, deployment of Israeli soldiers in case of an emergency, and demilitarization of
Palestinians along borders to ensure the state security of Israel. None of these requests were accepted by the
Palestinian delegation.
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