The negotiations shall be based on all the provisions and principles of UN Security Council Resolution 242.
Security Council Resolution 242 leaves all claims to the territories open for resolution through negotiations among the parties.
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All the agreements made between Israel and the Palestinians under the Oslo peace process were predicated on Resolution 242.
Security Council Resolution 242 and its follow-on resolutions can be implemented without Syria.
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Resolution 242 cannot be implemented unilaterally, even if Israel wanted to do so.
Resolution 242 and as promised in the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Agreement and prescribed in the Roadmap of the International Quartet.
While Resolution 242 was purposely vague about the extent of future Israeli territorial withdrawals, its language on the second component of a future Middle Eastern peace was explicit.
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Resolution 242, which mandates Israel's withdrawal from occupied territories.
After Israel's conquest of Gaza and the West Bank in 1967, for instance, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242, which called for Israeli withdrawal in exchange for recognition of Israel by its neighbours.
Some of the diplomats who drafted Resolution 242 said afterwards that they intended to allow for some changes in the armistice lines that separated Israel and its Arab neighbours before the war of 1967.
Adopting UN Security Council Resolution 242, the US again dragged Israel along by extolling the resolution's balance - conquered land would be returned to the aggressors, but not all of it, for Israel would be allowed to retain all territory necessary to ensure it had "defensible" borders.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli military forces occupied all of the territory indicated on Map 4, but joined the United States and other nations in supporting United Nations Resolution 242, which is still the binding law that condemns the acquisition of land by force and requires Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.
This resolution should explicitly supersede the three resolutions that until now have been cited as the legal norm for Middle East relations: Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 (regarding the return of territory) and General Assembly resolution 194 (regarding the return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes).
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