JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN ACCORD

Signed 11 February 1985 in Amman between King Hussein of Jordan and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasir Arafat, this accord envisioned a common action meant to conclude in a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict. The accord stipulated 1) the application of the principle "land in exchange for peace," according to United Nations resolutions, including those of the Security Council; 2) the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination; 3) a solution of the problem of Palestinian refugees, according to the UN resolutions; 4) a solution to the Palestinian question in all its aspects; 5) that peace negotiations will take place at an international conference, participants to include the five states that are permanent members of the Security Council and all the parties involved in the conflict, including the PLO, as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, in the framework of a common (Jordanian-Palestinian) delegation.

On 25 February 1985, Egyptian President Husni Mubarak asked the United States to organize direct Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian negotiations. In the course of the autumn, discussions between the different parties were suspended after the failure of a Jordanian-Palestinian meeting that had taken place in London on 14 October. In February 1986, because of a lack of full support of the PLO for United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, King Hussein of Jordan halted the application of the accord. A year later, on 22 April 1987, the Executive Committee of the PLO, meeting in Algiers, abrogated the Amman Accord.

SEE ALSO Arafat, Yasir;Mubarak, Husni;Resolution 242;Resolution 338.