The Oslo Peace Talks
Witness History
BBC
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Top secret negotiations in Norway during 1993 eventually led to an Israeli-Palestinian agreement which became known as the Oslo Accord. Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul was one of the people who helped keep the talks on track. She spoke to Louise Hidalgo for Witness in 2012.
(Photo: Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat at the signing ceremony for the Oslo Accord, September 13,1993. Credit: AFP/Getty Images.)
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:04.3 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.2 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me Louis Adagogo. |
| 1:18.0 | Today we go back to 1993 and secret talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis that would eventually |
| 1:25.5 | lead to the Oslo peace accords. |
| 1:28.0 | The talks was so secret that many people, including this rather weary spokesman for the American Secretary of State |
| 1:34.7 | doubted that the Israelis and the Palestinians would ever make any kind of deal. |
| 1:39.8 | There's been no progress you really have to assess at that point whether it's wise to continue |
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