FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV2013
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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.