The Geneva Initiative was born following the end of talks in Taba in 2001. Former Minister of Justice Yossi Beilin and General Secretary of the PLO Yasser Abed Rabbo continued talks in unofficial track II negotiations, with the goal of assessing whether or not it is possible to reach a detailed final status agreement. During two years of talks, leading experts and public figures from both sides took part, including ministers, members of parliament, former high-ranking security officials, mayors, academics, and more. Ultimately, an agreed-upon detailed document was reached, which included full solutions to all of the issues at stake, including mutual recognition of the two nations’ right to an independent state, the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state, retention of major settlement blocks under Israeli sovereignty, two capitals in Jerusalem, comprehensive arrangements for solving the refugee issue, declaration of an end to the conflict and an end of all claims.
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