The Palestinians knew Director General Egeland the diplomat Mona Juul
were reporting about the talks to Beilin (Beilin 1994; Hirshfeld 1994bi; Pedersen 1994. Pundik 19RS), Moreover the Norwegians not only provided the parties with negotiation settings but arranged where and when subsequent meetings would take place. During these secret back-channel negotiations there were no direct telephone links between Israel and Tunisia hence the Norwegians became the "go-between", with extensive telephone contacts between the negotiation sessions (Corbin 1994-39-40)