The Geneva Conference of 1973 was an attempt to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 338 which was passed after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. It opened on 21 December 1973. The United States and the USSR were the primary non-Middle Eastern countries involved at the conference. No comprehensive agreement was reached, and attempts in later years to revive the Conference failed. Combatants Arab nations Israel Arab-Israeli conflict series History of the Arab-Israeli conflict Views of the Arab-Israeli conflict International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics Participants Israeli-Palestinian conflict · Israel-Lebanon conflict · Arab League · Soviet Union / Russia · Israel and the United... The three-line UN Security Council Resolution 338, adopted on October 22, 1973, called for the ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War in article 1 and for implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 242 in article 2. ... The Yom Kippur War (Hebrew: Milchemet Yom HaKipurim (מלחמת יום הכיפורים), also known as the October War, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, and the Ramadan War), was fought from October 6 (the day of Yom Kippur) to... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Egypt's goals

By Sadat's time, the Egyptians were disassociating themselves from Arab nationalism and from radical regimes in the region. Egypt discouraged the participation of those nations in the Geneva Conference. The Egyptians' primary goal was to win back the territory they lost in 1967 to Israel in the Six-Day War under president Gamal Abdel Nasser. This was their goal during the Yom Kippur War just prior to the conference and the goal during the Camp David Accords in 1978. Arab nationalism refers to a common nationalist ideology in wider Arab world. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Commanders Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Uzi Narkiss, Israel Tal, Mordechai Hod, Ariel Sharon Abdel Hakim Amer, Abdul Munim Riad, Zaid ibn Shaker, Hafez al-Assad Strength 264,000 (incl. ... Nasser redirects here. ... Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Commanders Moshe Dayan David Elazar Ariel Sharon Shmuel Gonen Benjamin Peled Israel Tal Rehavam Zeevi Aharon Yariv Yitzhak Hofi Rafael Eitan Abraham Adan Yanush Ben Gal Saad El Shazly Ahmad Ismail Ali Hosni Mubarak Mohammed Aly Fahmy Anwar Sadat Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy Abdul... It has been suggested that Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty be merged into this article or section. ...

Palestinian representation issue

The Egyptians, Americans, Jordanians, and the Soviets hoped that through the conference, some sort of international agreement on the Palestinian problem and on which specific persons would be their representative in international affairs would be developed. Egypt was in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to represent the Palestinians and to join Egypt, Israel, the United States, and other established nations in the Geneva Conference. Syria went one step further and insisted that if the PLO was not present at the Geneva Conference, Syria would not be present either (Oded, 129). Israel and the United States opposed formal recognition of the PLO at the Geneva Conference due to the fact that at the time, the PLO did not recognize Israel's right to exist (Meital, 145-146). Thus, Syria was absent from the conference (Oded, 129). The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic: ‎;   or Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyyah) is a political and paramilitary organization regarded bythe Arab League since October 1974 as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. ... Right to exist is a phrase referring to the question of whether the Jewish people, acting through the modern government of Israel, have a right to maintain a homeland for the Jews in the Land of Israel. ...

See also

• Sinai Interim Agreement
• History of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Sinai Interim Agreement, also known as the Sinai II Agreement, was a piece of diplomacy concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict signed in Geneva on September 4, 1975. ... The Arab-Israeli conflict is a modern phenomenon, which dates back to the end of the 19th century. ... The UN Partition Plan Map of the State of Israel today The Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken shape over the years, despite the ongoing violence in the Middle East. ...

References

• Meital, Yoram. Egypt’s Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1977.
• Oded, Eran. "Arab-Israel Peacemaking." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002.