this volume includes the full text of the 1993 oslo agreement, the letters of mutual recognition exchanged by the israeli and palestinian sides, and the speeches made at the signing ceremony at the white house in 1993. the book also contains documents relating to the madrid peace conference (1991), the letters exchanged among the parties throughout the ten rounds of talks in washington, d.c., and king hussein's speech announcing jordan's disengagement from the occupied west bank.