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FACTBOX-Arab proposal for peace with Israel

25 Mar 2007 08:19:46 GMT
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March 25 (Reuters) - Arab leaders are expected to relaunch a five-year-old plan for peace with Israel when they gather in the Saudi capital Riyadh for an Arab League summit on March 28-29.

Here are some facts about the Arab peace plan, which was proposed by Saudi Arabia and later adopted unanimously at an Arab League summit in Beirut in March 2002.

- It calls on Israel to withdraw from all Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war; reach an "agreed, just" solution for Palestinian refugees in line with U.N. Resolution 194; and accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with east Jerusalem as its capital.

- In return, Arab states will consider the conflict over and will enter a peace treaty with Israel; achieve comprehensive peace for all the states of the region; and establish normal relations with Israel.

- Resolution 194, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1948 after the war that followed Israel's creation, resolves that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return..."

- Israel paid little attention to the Arab initiative at the time. The Beirut summit coincided with a major suicide bombing in the Israeli city of Netanya, which prompted the military reoccupation of much of the West Bank and a siege of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.

- Israeli leaders have recently said the Arab plan has positive elements but that other aspects -- including the proposed return to 1967 borders, the status of Jerusalem and how to deal with Palestinian refugees -- are "problematic".

- The Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement has not accepted the plan because it conflicts with its ultimate aim of replacing Israel with an Islamic state. Hamas leaders have offered only a long-term truce with Israel inside its 1967 borders.

- The Arab plan was mentioned as a foundation for peace in the "road map" announced by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations in April 2003.

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