NOTE: This is the full text of a ceasefire plan - the "Joint
Goals" proposal - put to Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
on 26 March 2002 by the US special envoy, Anthony Zinni. Zinni's
stated aim was to provide a mechanism for implementing an
earlier ceasefire plan put forward by CIA director George
Tenet and agreed by both sides in June 2001.
Zinni presented his first draft on
25 March. This was followed 24 hours later by a second draft
described as "a bridging proposal" which, according to
Palestinian officials deviates from the Tenet plan "in a
manner that positively reflects Israeli interests".
Israel said it would not allow the
Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, to attend an Arab summit in
Beirut on March 27-28 unless he signed the document. He refused to
do so.
One of the main Palestinian
objections was that the document provided no guarantee that a
ceasefire would be followed by peace talks or implementation of
the Mitchell plan. Other
objections to the document are set out in the Palestinian
negotiators' critique.
STEP
ONE
Phase 1 – Immediate – 48 hours
GOI (Government Of Israel) and
PA (Palestinian Authority) leaders make public declarations of
cease-fire to their respective populations.
GOI commits to cease
"proactive" operations in areas under the control of
the PA, including attacks on PA Ra’is Facilities; and
headquarters of Palestinian Security, Intelligence, and Police
Organizations; or prisons in the West Bank and Gaza Strip unless
responding in self-defense to an imminent terrorist attack.
PA issues clear orders to field
commanders to take action to prevent terrorism or violent
attacks, arrest persons involved in ongoing terrorist
activities, ceases PA security forces involvement in inciting
aiding, abetting attacks against all Israeli targets. PA and GOI
issue clear orders to their field commanders and take other
measures necessary to prevent individuals and groups from using
areas under their respective control to carry out acts of
violence.
GOI, acting on information made
known to the Trilateral Security Committee, takes action against
Israeli citizens inciting, carrying out, or planning to carry
out violence against Palestinians, with progress reports to the
Security Committee.
GOI and PA resume security
cooperation through reinvigoration of DCOs based on the
standards existing before September 28, 20000. GOI and PA share
information on terrorists’ threats directly and through the
Trilateral Security Committee followed by immediate actions and
reporting of results to the Security Committee.
IDF adopts measures to reduce
lethality of rules of engagement.
GOI and PA allow secure movement
of security personnel within Gaza and WB, in accordance with
existing agreements.
PA makes public commitment to
prevent smuggling, production, acquisition of illegal weapons,
prepares plan for collecting weapons, preventing smuggling, and
closing factories and arresting those involved.
IDF carries out demonstrable
redeployment (locations to be notified to the Trilateral
Security Committee).
GOI takes demonstrable action to
lift closures (locations to be notified to the Trilateral
Security Committee).
PA assumes security
responsibility where it has jurisdiction at locations where GOI
eases security restrictions. GOI takes measures to facilitate
the transfer of these responsibilities.
STEP
TWO
48 Hours – End of Phase 1 –
Trilateral Security Committee Meeting to Assess Progress (Phase 2:
48 Hours – 1 Week).
PA acts decisively to prevent
attacks, enforce cease-fire, including arrest of activists in
breach of cease-fire, action against those who incite, aid and
abet such activities.
GOI and PA act to prevent
incitement to violence among their respective populations.
GOI and PA allow secure movement
of security personnel within and between Gaza and WB, in
accordance with existing agreements.
GOI completes withdrawal from
Area A, continues removal of internal closures and redeployment
according to agreed schedule, including removal of permanent
roadblocks in Gaza, supervised entry of vehicles at Mawasi area,
removal of IDF positions from Palestinian houses, continues
removal of other checkpoints and earth barriers, further
redeployment of armored vehicles.
PA continues to assume security
responsibility at locations where GOI eases security
restrictions. GOI continues to take measures to facilitate the
transfer of these responsibilities.
Trilateral committee identifies
"flashpoints," each side designates senior security
personnel responsible for them, develops JSOP for each.
PA presents comprehensive plan
for collection of illegal weapons as defined in existing
agreements including the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement,
Annex I, articles IV and XI. PA begins actions in concert with
GOI to prevent smuggling of illegal weapons. PA takes
demonstrable action against weapons and mortar factories, based
on PA information and information developed in conjunction with
the GOI. Each side informs the security committee of the status
and success of these efforts.
GOI takes specified actions to
ease economic restrictions and movement of Palestinian
civilians, as detailed in Israeli proposal, p. 6.
GOI identifies Palestinian
prisoners, including PA security personnel, arrested in security
sweeps and not involved in terrorist activities. Begins
releasing prisoners in this category.
Trilateral Security Committee
using information provided by the parties, identifies activists
involved in planning or carrying out terrorist activities. PA
takes demonstrable actions to arrest individuals on this list.
GOI re-institutes military
police investigations into Palestinian deaths resulting from IDF
actions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in incidents not
involving terrorism.
STEP
THREE
1 Week – End of Phase 2 –
Trilateral Security Meeting to Assess Progress - Phase 3 – 1
week – 4 weeks (plus or minus) (Further Trilateral Security
Meetings will be held to assess interim progress during the course
of phase 3)
Pursuant to agreed schedule, GOI
completes redeployment and lifting of all internal closures to
28 September 2000 positions including reopening of internal
roads, the Allenby bridge, Gaza Airport, Port of Gaza, and
border crossings.
GOI further eases specified
civilian restrictions, as detailed in Israeli proposal, p.7.
PA arrests terrorist activists
from names made known to the trilateral security committee and
provides the committee the names of those arrested, as soon as
they are apprehended, as well as summary of actions taken.
PA takes credible and sustained
judicial action ("due process") against arrested
individuals for the purpose of further investigation and
prosecution and punishment of all persons involved in acts of
violence and terror.
PA continues to undertake
preemptive operations against terrorism, continues
implementation of illegal weapons collection plan, and transfer
of collected weapons to a third party, continues actions to
prevent smuggling. Measures include taking demonstrable action
against weapons factories, laboratories, safe-houses, and arms
depots at locations identified by the trilateral security
committee, arrests and prosecutes individuals connected with
these locations and other actions against the support structure
of terrorism, including the financing of terrorist activities
and mechanisms for inciting terror.
STEP
FOUR
4 Weeks (plus or minus) – End of
Phase 3 – Trilateral Security Committee Meets to Assess Progress
and decide on Transition to Next Steps.
[See Palestinian
negotiators' critique of this
document.] |