Madrid Conference

The Madrid Conference of 1991 was a peace conference held in Madrid, Spain, from October 30 to November 1, 1991, with the aim of reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Palestinians as well as Arab countries, including Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The conference was co-sponsored by the US and the Soviet Union, and was preceded by bilateral negotiations between Israel and the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, Lebanon, and Syria, which took place in Washington starting in December 1991. Multilateral negotiations on regional cooperation began in Moscow in January 1992, attended by Israel, the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, and the international community, but without Lebanon and Syria. The conference was seen as a key step in the Arab-Israeli peace process, and was part of the Bush administration's policy to achieve an Arab-Israeli treaty based on the territory-for-peace principle and the fulfillment of Palestinian rights.learn more on wikipedia