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Oslo Accords: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Israel-PLO accord
Date 1993
Participants Israel • Palestine Liberation Organization

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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
president of Palestinian Authority
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas
president of Palestinian Authority
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel