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Madrid talks will have to deal with territorial questions
NICOSIA. Oct 25: The Madrid Middle East peace conference that opens October 30 is to be based on United Nations Security Council resolution 242, approved following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, reports AFP.
Endorsed on November 22, 1967 the measure — In its English version — calls for an Israeli withdrawal "from territories occupies in the recentconflict" In exchange for "the acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial Integrity and political independence of every state tn the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."
In the French version of the resolution, however, Israel is called on to withdraw from the territories it seized in the June, 1967 war.
Referring the English text and the absence of the definite
article Israel argues that It has already compiled with 242 by pulling out of some of the territory It captured — namely, the Sinai Peninsula, which it restored to Egypt under a 1979 peace treaty.
But Israeli Prime Minister Yitshak Shamir, during a visit to the European parliament In Strasbourg Tuesday, disclosed that his country could be flexible on this issue.
The parties should negotiate peace treaties but could &lso discuss territorial questions, he said.
The one-to-one talks between Israel and its Arab neighbours, due to begin after the conference's opening session on October 30, will focus on Israeli territorial disputes with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians.
The following is a summary of the territorial questions involved:
Syria's alm is to regain con-
trol of the strategic Golan Heights — captured by Israel in 1967 and annexed tn 1981 — that overlook the Israeli region of Galilee and in the south command the road to Damascus.
The Plateau is marked in the north by mount Hermon, in the west by the Houleh depression, the Jordan River and the sea of Galilee, in the south by the Yarmuk valley establishing the Syrian-Jordan border, and in the east by Rakkad, a tributary of the Yarmuk.
The Syrian population there numbers 15,000, with an equal number of Jewish settlers, spread over an area of 1,500 square kilometers (600 square miles).
The Palestinians are claiming the West Bank and East Jerusalem, controlled by Jordan until the 1967 war, and the formerly Egyptian administered Gaza Strip.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israeli troops in 1967, and Israel Immediately annexed the Arab eastern sector of the holy city. In 1980,- Israel adopted a law making a reunited Jerusalem the dountr/s eternal capital.
The West Bank covers a surface area of 6,600 square kilometers (2,264 square miles) while East Jerusalem covers 100 square kilometers "(40 square miles)
The West Bank features a mountain range that rises to 500 meters above sea level to the north and to 1,000 metres near Hebron. The mountain descends into the Jordan • valley to the east, such a land-scapy offers a natural Wall of protection, according to Israeli officials.
One million residents, including 15000 in East Jerusalem live in both areas. Some 100,000 Jewish set-
tlers tn the West Bank and 125,000 are in East Jerusalem.
The Gaza Strip is a rectangular plain about 40 kilometers (25 miles) In length and up to 12 kilometers (eight miles) wide on the Mediterranean between Egypt and Israel.
About 750,000 Palestinians live In the Gaza Strip, along with 4,000 Jewish settlers.
King Hussein, who in 1988 abandoned illegal ties to the West Bank, has said he wants negotiations on the future of the formerly Jordanian territory, along with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, to be led by Palestinian members of a Joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation.
Jordan itself, claims two border zones, one in the northern region of Al-Bakoura (1.4 square kilometers or .56 square miles) that Israel occupied in 1949, and the other south of the dead sea In Wadf Arabah (about 388 square
kilometers or 155 square miles) that Israel occupied after 1976.
These regions are uninhabited but the Al-Bakoura zone 'allows Israel to control the confluence of the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers.
Lebanon did not take part in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and Is therefore not directly concerned by UN resolution 242.
But Israel has since 1978 occupied a border zone of • 1,100 square kilometers (440 square miles) in South Lebanon, or about a tenth of the country's surface area.
Resolution 425, adopted by the Security Council on March 19, 1978 but which has not been implemented, requires Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
Lebanese authorities Insist that 425 is not negotiable and should not be raised at the conference.