The foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt and Jordan and a Palestinian Authority official are to convene next week to discuss the Palestinians who fled the territories after the 1967 war.
The meeting is scheduled to take place March 7 in the Jordanian capital of Amman, a diplomatic source said this week. The meeting was originally set for Feb. 26, the source said, but was put off because of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres’ tight schedule.
The Israeli Embassy in Amman confirmed that Peres would be taking part in the talks, which will address the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled their homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the Six-Day War. Discussions on Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war are not scheduled.
The meeting will be the first of its kind since the signing of the Oslo accord. In that agreement, Israel agreed to discuss Palestinian refugees from 1967, but did not commit to how many it would allow to return, or when. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported that at a meeting last month in Cairo, the foreign minister of Egypt, a Jordanian official and a senior Palestinian official formulated a joint position on the matter.
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