From Bobert Productions

The Emergency Middle East Peace Summit

Basic Scipt Notes:

"I'll go on record once again of saying that if I were the President, I'd have called for an Emergency Middle East Peace Summit, used that drum beating PR money on pursuading full participation and more PR money to get leaders to feel like they were part of something historic and not adjorn the danged thing until there was an inclusive comprehensive plan in place, which involved UN inspectors and peace keepers."

That was Bobert's proposal - Kinda sounds good doesn't it? Cosy, so simple, guaranteed not to fail!! never been tried before???. Well not according to Bobert (Oslo, Camp David and a few more besides, never really happened).

Who do we invite Bobert?
More important who is likely to come?
Who is going to stay once they all know the full list of attendees?

The Prospective Attendees/Delegates:

Group 1 - Front Line States
a) Israel
b) Egypt
c) Palestinian Authority
d) Jordan
e) Syria
f) Lebanon

Group 2 - States Associated
a) Libya
b) Iraq
c) Iran
d) Saudi Arabia
e) Turkey
f) Kuwait
g) Bahrain
h) Qatar
i) Doha
j) Dubai
k) Sharjah
l) Oman
m) Yemen

Group 3 - The Ethnics
a) Armenians
b) Kurds (Turkish, Iraqi & Iranian)
c) Iraqi Shi'ites
d) Lebanese Falangists
e) Palestinians outwith Gaza & the West bank

Group 4 - UNSC Permanent Members
a) France
b) Russia
c) China
d) United States of America
e) United Kingdom

Location:
To be advised - maybe Norway - they liked it there the last time - but weather tends to be a bit iffy and Norway is busy with the Tamil Tigers at the moment.

Protocol:

1. Who is going to Chair this Summit? - must be aceptable to all - No Bobert America could not fulfil this role - question of impartiality.

2. Who is going to sit next whom? - should take about a couple of years to work that out.

3. Who sets the agenda and order of business?

4. Who acts as mediator?


Possible Agenda Items:

1. Recognition of the Sovereignty of the State of Israel

2. Recognition of the Sovereignty of a seperate Palestinian State

3. Removal of Post 1967 Israeli Settlements from the Occupied Territories

4. Withdrawal of Israel from the Golan Heights

5. Withdrawal of Syrian Forces from the Lebanon

6. Riparian Rights vis-a-vis Israel and Lebanon; Israel and Jordan; Israel and Syria; Turkey and Iraq.

7. Abandonment of support for Terrorist Organisations

8. Human Rights issues throughout the region on a country by country basis, guaranteeing the rights of ethnic/religious groups within each country, and the right by referenda for the establishment of independent states or homelands if desired by those religious or ethnic groups.

9. Declaration renouncing development and use of weapons of mass destruction.

10. Creation of a non-aggression/mutual defence pact between all countries in the region.

11. Recognition of all international water-ways.

Obviously there could be more, the above list is by no means comprehensive - but there are no real "show-stoppers" there are there Bobert?. After they've decided who sits where, Bobert - it would be all done and dusted in a fore-noon - luncheon anyone??.