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Israel and Syria Resume Peace Negotiations
Dec 1999/Jan 2000
On December 8, 1999, President Clinton announced that Prime Minister Barak and President Assad have agreed that the Israel-Syrian peace negotiations
will be resumed from the point that they were halted since January 1996.
The talks were launched at a summit meeting with President Clinton in Washington on December 15, with
Prime Minister Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk a-Shara.
 Statement by President Clinton on Meetings between PM Barak and FM al-Shara - December 16, 1999
Press Briefing by Secretary of State Albright - December 16, 1999
Opening Remarks, the White House - December 15, 1999
Statement to the Knesset by PM Barak on the Renewal of Israel-Syria Negotiations, December 13, 1999
President Clinton Announces Re-opening of Israel-Syria Negotiations - December 8, 1999
Joint Press Conference by PM Barak and Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright - December 8, 1999
It was agreed that intensive negotiations will commence on January 3, 2000. These talks convened on January 3 and continued until January 11. The negotiations, which were to have reconvened on January 19, 2000, were suspended.
Syria puts talks on hold - 18 January 2000 (Jerusalem Post)
Ha'aretz publishes US Timetable Document - 17 January 2000
PM's Office Response to Ha'aretz Report - 13 January 2000
Ha'aretz Daily publishes US Document - 13 January 2000
Barak: Tough decisions ahead - 12 January 2000 (Jerusalem Post)
Talks resume in Shepherdstown - January 2000 (CNN)
U.S. State Department Briefing - The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks - January 10, 2000 (Courtesy of U.S. State Department Website)
Clinton-Assad Summit - March 2000
A summit meeting held between Presidents Clinton and Assad in Geneva on March 26, 2000 failed to produce results.
Excerpt from Daily Press Briefing (US State Department, March 30)
Barak: Assad not ready for peace - Jerusalem Post, March 28
U.S. to turn up the heat on Syria after summit failure - Ha'aretz, March 28
White House Press Secretary Statement - Geneva, March 26
White House Press Briefing by Joe Lockhart - Geneva, March 26
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