Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days last week, exhausted negotiators pored over maps and drafts of a proposed agreement in smoke-filled Cairo hotel rooms, until the morning of the third day, when Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres proclaimed that the two sides had "reached a meeting of the minds." Breakthrough...
P.L.O. delegates temporarily broke off talks with Israel, complaining that an Israeli offer of troop redeployment in the Gaza Strip, under the parties' peace agreement, was inadequate. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres broadly hinted that there would be another breakthrough in the region, as reports circulated that he had met secretly with Jordan's King Hussein...
...Israeli count, 200,000 people were displaced by the war; P.L.O. officials speak of more than 800,000, a number that includes the descendants of the original refugees. To pacify their respective constituencies, both sides are taking extreme positions on how many exiles can come back. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has suggested the absurdly small figure of 5,000, while P.L.O. officials have said they would wave in the whole 800,000. That would increase the Palestinian population in the territories by one-third and bring in many individuals deemed security risks by Israel. In reality, both sides recognize...
...splashy White House ceremony to give the process a boost (and, of course, to associate his Administration with an accord the U.S. had not directly helped negotiate). Clinton left it up to both sides to pick the representatives, and on Friday the Israelis planned to send Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Palestinians P.L.O. Executive Committee member Abu Mazin. But at 7 p.m. Friday the Palestinians told State Department officials that Arafat would head their delegation. Dennis Ross, the State Department's special coordinator for the Middle East, immediately called Warren Christopher, who was having drinks with reporters...
...soon as possible. Without benefit of a formal treaty, the two countries cooperate on matters like sharing the waters of the Jordan River. At the last round of peace talks in June, their negotiators fell to discussing pest control in the neighboring towns of Eilat and Aqaba. Says Shimon Peres: "We were left without subjects except for mosquitoes and flies...