They were signed at a Washington ceremony hosted by US President Bill Clinton. Mahmoud Abbas signed for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Shimon Peres signed for the State of Israel. The signing was witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended decades as sworn enemies with an uneasy handshake.
Personages: Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Rabin, George Bush, Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter, Johan Hoist (Norway), Amr Moussa (Egypt), Anthony Lake ( USA), Vice President Al Gore, Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Abbas (PLO), Warren Christopher, Andrey Kozyrev.
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