The Preamble

1. The Palestinian and Israeli sides agree on the following principles in order to facilitate the progress of the negotiations and the peace process. It is the understanding of both sides that these principles, while constituting agreed upon bases for their negotiations, govern the whole process until the achievement of a detailed and final agreement.
   The objective of the peace process is to reach a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace settlement through direct negotiations based on UN Security Council resolutions 242, 338, the principle of land for peace, and compliance with internal legality.
   The negotiations the Palestinian and Israeli sides will be conducted in two interlocking phases, and which form part of an integrated whole, to fully implement the aforementioned resolutions, principle, and international legality. It is the understanding of both sides that nothing should be done in the interim period that may permit or prejudice the outcome of the final status of negotiations. The agreement reached will achieve the full implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338.
2. A Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority (PISGA) will be established through free, general, and direct elections, under agreed appropriate international supervision.
   All Palestinians who on June 4th (1967) were listed on the relevant population registers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, as well as descendants, will participate in the election.
3. The PISGA will assume legislative, executive, and judicial powers.
4. All powers presently exercised by the Israeli military government and its civil administration should be transferred orderly and peacefully to the PISGA upon its election and inauguration. For this to be freely exercised, the Israeli armed forces shall start withdrawal which should be completed according to the agreed upon schedule and time limit, under agreed international supervision.
5. The objective of security arrangements is to achieve regional stability and to respond to mutual needs as well as to create conditions of real peace.
6. The authority of the PISGA will extend to all the Palestinian territory occupied since June 1967 which is an integral whole and constitutes a single territorial unit under one system of law.
7. The PISGA and the government of Israel will conclude agreements on Cupertino or coordination in specific areas of common concern. These arrangements will take account of the security needs of both parties and their mutual benefit.
8. A joint committee will be established between the PISGA and the Israeli government, to consider matters of common concern and settle disputes that may arise between them.
9. Disputes which cannot be settled by agreement between the PISGA and the government of Israel will be submitted to an Arbitration Commission to be established from representatives of the U.S., the Russian Federation, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the UN, as well as representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli sides.
10. No later than October 1994, negotiations will commence to determine the permanent status of the occupied territories and to enable the Palestinian people to freely exercise its legitimate rights.