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King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.

English SA flag Saudi Arabia 2002-03-28 Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary 107 words

Politician: King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz

Original source: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-181223/

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Having heard the statement in which His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presented his Initiative and called for Israel’s full withdrawal from all the Arab territories that have been occupied since 1967, in implementation of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) as confirmed by the 1991 Madrid Conference and the principle of land for peace, and for its acceptance of the emergence of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital in return for the establishment by the Arab States of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel,

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[Source is English — the official United Nations document (UNISPAL) transmitting the resolutions of the League of Arab States' Beirut Summit (27–28 March 2002), including the Arab Peace Initiative; tier-1, confirmed verbatim. An authoritative Arabic original also exists.] Declared position of (then) Crown Prince — later King — Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (the kingdom's de facto ruler from 1995, King 2005–2015). The passage is the official Arab League record of the ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE (the "Abdullah Plan" / "Saudi Initiative") that he proposed at the Beirut Summit on 28 March 2002 and that all Arab League states then adopted unanimously (reaffirmed at the 2007 Riyadh Summit). Its formula: in exchange for Israel's FULL WITHDRAWAL from all Arab territories occupied since 1967 (implementing UNSC 242 and 338 and the land-for-peace principle, including the Golan to the 4 June 1967 line and still-occupied southern Lebanon), a just/agreed solution to the Palestinian refugee problem (per UNGA 194), and the establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital — the Arab states would consider the Arab–Israeli conflict ended, enter a peace agreement, and establish NORMAL RELATIONS with Israel in a comprehensive peace. This is the foundational, collective Arab land-for-peace / normalization framework — a historic shift toward recognizing Israel on conditions — and the direct ancestor of the conditional-normalization positions documented elsewhere (Faisal bin Farhan's "no normalization without a Palestinian state"); it sits between unconditional normalization (UAE / Gargash) and the resistance camp's flat rejection. [Axes: palestinian-question (land for peace; two-state with East Jerusalem; refugees per UNGA 194), normalization (collective, conditional on full withdrawal + statehood), regional-stance (pan-Arab consensus), west-alignment.]

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Abdulaziz, K. A. B.. (2002). King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.. un.org. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-181223/
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Abdulaziz, King Abdullah bin. 2002. "King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.." un.org. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-181223/.
BibTeX
@misc{doc-document-ebd60251-7c00-44b3-9767-4088ce78a405,
  author       = {Abdulaziz, King Abdullah bin},
  title        = {King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.},
  year         = {2002},
  date         = {2002-03-28},
  howpublished = {Online; hosted at un.org},
  url          = {https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-181223/},
  urldate      = {2026-07-28},
  note         = {Retrieved via Tayyar at https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/documents/ebd60251-7c00-44b3-9767-4088ce78a405},
}

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