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The Fahd Peace Plan, also known asthe Fahd Peace Initiative andFez Initiative, was a peace proposal presented by then Saudi Crown PrinceFahd of Saudi Arabia in 1981[1] and officially submitted duringthe Arab League summit in Morocco's city ofFez in November that year.[2]
Possibly the first bid to solve the conflict following theEgypt–Israel Peace Treaty in 1979, the plan was designed to resolve theArab–Israeli conflict and establish lasting peace in the region.[3]
Made by eight-point proposal, the plan has suggested that "all states in the region should be able to live in peace in the region."[3] Within its provisions, it was included Israeli withdrawal from "all Arab territory occupied in 1967", includingArab Jerusalem, dismantling ofIsraeli settlements built on "Arab land" after 1967, a "guarantee of freedom of worship for all religions in Holy Places", an "affirmation of the right of the Palestinian Arab people to return to their homes and compensation for those who do not wish to return", and the creation of an "independent Palestinian State" withJerusalem as its capital and putting theWest Bank and theGaza Strip under the "auspices of the United Nations for a period not exceeding several months".[4]
The points of the Peace Plan:[1]
The Fahd Peace Plan was presented at the 8thArab League summit inFez, Morocco, in November 1981, and it sparked disagreements among the parties. It was only during the sessions of the 12th summit of the organization, held again in Fez in September 1982,[5] that the proposal was endorsed as the Fez Initiative, after including a reference to thePalestine Liberation Organization, and it became the official position of theArab states regarding the conflict.[2][4]
However, theIsraeli government at the time, led byMenachem Begin, did not accept the plan and rejected its provisions.[6]
Nevertheless, the Fahd Peace Plan laid a foundation for further discussions on peace in the Middle East and influenced other peace initiatives in the region, such as the2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which also aimed at a comprehensive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[7]