Israeli officials from the political mainstream are due to take part in a seminar here later this week that will include the participation of well-known Palestinian activiests, as well as prominent American and Soviet officials.
The seminar, on “Economic Development in the Middle East in the Year 2000,” is scheduled to take place in Lausanne on Thursday and Friday. It is sponsored by the Getty Institute of the United States and Lord Weidenfeld of Great Britain.
Among the Israelis listed as participating in the program are Meir Sheetrit, treasurer of the World Zionist Organization; Knesset members Zalman Shuval of Likud and Abba Eban of Labor; Brig. Gen. Ephraim Sneh, former head of the civil administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; and two former high-level Foreign Ministry officials, David Kimche and Nimrod Novik.
The Palestinians invited include: Faisal al-Husseini, head of the Arab Studies Center in Jerusalem, recently released from administrative detention in Israel; Professor Sari Nusseibeh of Bir Zeit University, long considered a Palestinian moderate; and Hanna Siniora, editor of the East Jerusalem Arabic daily Al-Fajr.
Participating Americans include former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, former Middle East envoy Philip Habib and Professor Arthur Hertzberg of Dartmouth University.
Former Soviet Foreign Minister Anatoly Gromyko is also scheduled to take part.
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