The negotiations shall be based on all the provisions and principles of UN Security Council Resolution 242.

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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.

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Resolution 242 cannot be implemented unilaterally, even if Israel wanted to do so.

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Resolution 242 and as promised in the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Agreement and prescribed in the Roadmap of the International Quartet.

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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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In 1967, it was the Arabs who rejected Resolution 242.

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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.

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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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