In October 1991, a conference was convened in Madrid to inaugurate direct peace talks. Subsequently, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians, as well as multilateral talks on key regional issues. These talks culminated in the signing of a Treaty of Peace between Israel and Jordan on October 26, 1994, and a series of interim agreements with the Palestinians.

The failure of the Camp David Summit in July 2000 virtually brought an end to bilateral peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for seven years. In 2007, talks were resumed under the framework of the Roadmap for a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict put forward by US President George Bush. An international conference will convene in Annapolis on November 27, 2007 to relaunch the negotiating process, towards the realization of the two-state vision. 

The links below provide information about ongoing developments in the Middle East peace process since the Madrid Conference, on both the bilateral and the multilateral tracks, as well as diagrams describing the structure of the early negotiations.