Documents / FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service coverage of the Middle East peace talks from December 1977. It collects British, Israeli and Soviet press and radio items on President as-Sadat's initiative and the planned Cairo conference. It also covers Prime Minister Begin's visit to London, Secretary of State Vance's regional tour and the Knesset debate on the peace plan. It contains no material on unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Cairo”42 pages
PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV2013 V. 0oec / N 5 ISRAEL The term of office of the administrative council will be 4 years from the day of its election. The council will have its seat in Bethlehem. All the administrative issues pertaining to the Arab residents of Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip will be under the jurisdiction of the administrative council. The administrative council will establish the following departments: department of education; department of transportation;'department of construction and housing; department of industry, commerce and tourism; department of agriculture; department of health; department of labor and social betterment; department for the rehabilitation of refugees; department of legal administration and supervision of the local police force. The administrative council will issue regulations pertaining to the activities of those departments. Security and public order in the areas of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza will be entrusted to the Israeli authorities. The administrative council will elect its own chairman. The first session of the administrative council will be held 30 days after the publication of the election results. Thus, Mr Chairman, the administrative expression of autonomy for the Arab residents of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza. And now, the parliamentary expression: Residents of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza, regardless of their citizenship or lack of it, will have the free option to receive either-Israeli or Jordanian citizenship. A resident in the areas of Judaea, Samariaior Gaza who requests Israeli citizenship will receive it in accordance with the state's citizenship law. Residents of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza who choose, in accordance with their free option, Israeli citizenship will be entitled to vote for the ,Knesset and to be elected to it in accordance with the election law. Residents of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza who are Jordanian citizens, or those who become Jordanian citizens, in accordance with their free option, will vote and will be entitled to be elected to the parliament of the Jordanian Hashemite Kingdom in accordance with the election law of that country. Questions deriving from the elections of the Judaea, Samaria and Gaza residents to the Jordanian parliament will be presented for negotiations between Israel and Jordan. A committee of representatives of Israel, Jordan and the administrative council will be established to examine the existing law in Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza district and to determine which laws will remain valid, which will be abolished and what the authority of the administrative council will be to issue regulations. The decisions of this committee will be adopted unanimously. Israeli residents will be entitled to purchase land and settle in the areas of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza. Arab residents of Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza district who become, in accordance with the free option granted them, Israeli citizens will be entitled to purchase land and settle in Israel. A committee of representatives of Israel, Jordan and of the administrative council will be established to determine immigration rules for the areas of Judaea, Samaria and Gaza. The .committee will postulate those rules which will permit Palestinian refugees outside Judaea, Samaria and Gaza immigration in a reasonable volume into these areas. The decision of the committee will be adopted unanimously. I'"raeli residents and the residents of Judaea, Samaria and the Gaza district will be assured free movement and free economic activity in Israel, in Judaea, in Samaria and in the Gaza district.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 65 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.