Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), finalized in Oslo, Norway by August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993 with Mahmoud Abbas signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shimon Peres signing for the State of Israel witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat.

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Issues

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Proposals for a Palestinian state
• Arab-Israeli conflict

People

• Yossi Beilin (architect of the agreement)
• Ron Pundak (architect of the agreement)
• Shimon Peres (architect of the agreement)
• Johan Jørgen Holst (the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs)
• Terje Rød-Larsen (architect of the agreement)
• Mona Juul (architect of the agreement)
• Marianne Heiberg
• Jan Egeland
• Yitzhak Rabin (Israeli prime minister)
• Bill Clinton (US president)
• Yasser Arafat (head of the PLO, chairman of the Palestinian Authority)
• Sheik Yassin (head of terrorist group Hamas)
• Mahmoud Abbas (architecht of the agreement)
• Yigal Amir (the man who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin due the Oslo process)
• Ehud Barak (Israeli prime minister, initator of Camp David summit in 2000, was the chief of staff of the IDF between 1992-1995)