and both sides threatened to break them off. However, with the facilitation of the Norwegians, the parties sat down and went through each paragraph and came up with sixteen differences concerning the DOP. They decided to divide the sixteen points of dispute into two groups.
Each set of negotiators would then try to convince their back home to compromise an eight of the issues. At this meeting, the Israel negotiators also presented their suggestion of a mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO, which would enable the PLO to become Israel's official and public negotiating partner. However, Israel attached seven conditions to such manual recognition.