Camp David Accords
Signing of the two Camp David framework agreements
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Original prompt & settings (JSON) ↗The televised ceremony began at 10:31 on a Sunday night. Immediately afterward, Egypt's own foreign minister resigned in protest.
From Camp David to the East Room
After last-minute negotiations at Camp David on 17 September 1978, Carter, Sadat and Begin flew by helicopter to Washington. Aharon Barak, the Israeli legal adviser, had worked the final language, including the wording on Israeli settlements and a future Knesset vote.
The nationally televised White House ceremony ran from 10:31 to 11:04 p.m.
Two documents, nine letters
The three leaders signed the final versions of “A Framework for Peace in the Middle East Agreed at Camp David” and “Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel.” The FRUS editorial note also records nine associated letters.
The broader framework proposed transitional self-government and negotiations concerning the West Bank and Gaza. The bilateral framework committed Egypt and Israel to negotiate a peace treaty within three months, and contemplated a Knesset decision on Sinai settlements within two weeks.
Frameworks, not a treaty
Neither document was the Egypt–Israel peace treaty; that remained to be negotiated, and was signed on 26 March 1979.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel resigned from the cabinet immediately after the ceremony, in protest against the agreements.
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What the sources leave uncertain
- Accounts call the summit either twelve or thirteen days: September 5–17 represents twelve elapsed days but thirteen calendar dates.
- Carter's formal role is variously summarized as witness, mediator or signatory. The final documents bear the three leaders' signatures, while Egypt and Israel were the principal parties to the bilateral commitments.
Checked against
- FRUS Editorial Note on the final day and signing ceremony
- Documents Agreed to at Camp David
- Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
- United Nations Treaty Collection: Framework for Peace in the Middle East
- UN General Assembly treatment of the Camp David accords and Palestinian rights
- The Nobel Peace Prize 1978