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VOLUME 18: 1999-2001
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26. Communiqué regarding the signing of a postal agreement between Israel and the PA, 18 August 1999.
This was the first Israel-PA agreement signed since the October 1998 Wye River Memorandum. It dealt with technical matters of transferring mail from the PA to Egypt and Jordan and from the West Bank to Gaza. Text:
Coordinator of Activities in the Territories Major-General Ya'acov Orr and the Communications Ministry Director-General Danny Rosen, together with the PA official in charge of the Civil Affairs Ministry, Jamil Tarifi, and PA Deputy Minister for Communications Zohair Alham, on (Wednesday) 18.8.99, signed agreements for arranging the transfer of mail from the PA to Egypt and Jordan, and from Judea and Samaria to the Gaza Strip and vice versa. This is the first agreement to be signed since the Wye accords.
The agreements provide for the commercial regularisation of the transfer of mail from the PA to Egypt and Jordan, within the PA and from Israel to the PA. Transit times for postal items should be greatly shortened.
These are the first agreements to be signed between Israel and the Palestinians since the current government took office and were signed following intensive negotiations, chaired by Deputy Coordinator of Activities in the Territories Brigadier-General Yosef Mishlav.
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