Documents on Palestine

UN General Assembly resolution ES-10/10 - 7 May 2002
"Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory".

Speeches to UN general assembly relating to Palestinian application for recognition, 23 September 2011:

Speech by Mahmoud Abbas
Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu
Speech by Barack Obama

Palestinian documents

PLO Charter

The Khartoum Resolutions - 1 Sep 1967 [At Israel.Org]

Palestinian National Charter - 1968

Hamas Covenant - 1988

Cairo Declaration - 7 Nov 1985
Statement on terrorism

Yasser Arafat's address to the UN General Assembly ("Gun and olive branch" speech) - 13 November 1974

Yasser Arafat's address to the European Parliament - Strasbourg, 13 Sep 1988

Palestinian Declaration of Independence - Algiers, 15 Nov 1988

Palestine National Council: Political Communique - Algiers, 15 Nov 1988

Yasser Arafat's address to the UN General Assembly - 13 Dec 1988

Yasser Arafat's address to the UN Security Council - Geneva, 25 May 1990

Palestinian plan for interim self-government - Washington, Jan 1992

Draft Basic Law for the National Authority in the Transitional Period
(February 1996)

Draft Basic Law for the National Authority in the Transitional Period
(June 1994)

Declaration of the Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements
Washington DC, 13 September 1993

International diplomacy

End of mission report
Report by the UN's Middle East envoy, Alvaro de Soto, May 2007. The document was critical of the performance of the Quartet (see news report).

The Geneva Accord
Unofficial draft treaty negotiated by a group of Israelis and Palestinians. Issued October 2003.

Aqaba summit
Statements by King Abdullah, Ariel Sharon, Mahmoud Abbas and George Bush. 4 June 2003.

Middle East "road map"
Issued on 30 April 2003. Full text.

Road map: Israeli reservations

Report of the UN Secretary-General on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities (1 August 2002)
Also in PDF format. See also press release for background and summary of contents.

Speech by President Bush (24 June 2002)
The president called for new Palestinian institutions and new leaders

Preparations for an international conference (2 May 2002)
Remarks by US Secretary of State Colin Powell

Speech by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon (23 April 2002)

Security Council Resolution 1405 (19 April 2002)
Situation in Jenin refugee camp; fact-finding mission

UN Secretary-General calls for intervention by a multinational force (18 April 2002)

Arafat condemns terrorism (13 April 2002)
Text of statement that paved the way for a meeting with US Secretary of State Colin Powell

Joint statement on the Middle East (10 April 2002)
By the US, EU, Russia and the United Nations

Speech by President Bush (4 April 2002)
The president called on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities and outlined his goal of a "politically and economically viable" Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.

The Arab Peace Initiative (28 March 2002)
Final version of the peace proposal initiated by Crown Prince Abdullah and approved by the Arab summit in Beirut.

Zinni's ceasefire plan (submitted 26 March 2002)
Full text, plus Palestinian negotiators' critique of the document. Zinni's proposal would have allowed Israel to continue attacks Palestinian presidential buildings, security headquarters and prisons "in self-defence to an imminent terrorist attack".

Security Council Resolution 1402 (30 March 2002)

Security Council Resolution 1397 (12 March 2002)

Mitchell Commission (published 20 May, 2001)
Full text of the fact-finding committee's report mapped out a plan for a ceasefire and confidence-building measures, leading to a resumption of peace talks.

The Tenet Plan (agreed 13 June, 2001)
Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and security plan negotiated by CIA director George Tenet

The Taba talks (January 2001)
Notes by EU envoy Miguel Moratinos. The Israeli-Palestinian talks held at Taba, Egypt, in January 2001 - shortly before the election of Ariel Sharon as Israeli prime minister - made good progress on many issues that had been left unresolved at the Camp David summit six months earlier.

Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee (the "Mitchell report") - 30 April 2001
Plus replies by the Israeli government and the PLO

Wye River Memorandum - 23 October 1998

Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Understanding - 16 Apr 1996

"Summit of Peacemakers": Final Statement - Sharm el-Sheikh, 13 Mar 1996

Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians - 28 Sep 1995

Treaty of Peace between Israel and Jordan - 26 Oct 1994

Agreement on the Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities - 29 Aug 1994

The Washington Declaration - 25 Jul 1994
(Israel, Jordan, United States)

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area - 4 May 1994

Israel-Jordan Common Agenda - 14 Sep 1993

Israel-Palestinian Declaration of Principles - 13 Sep 1993

Israel-PLO recognition 9-10 Sep 1993