The conference that wasn’t – ‘Madrid’ in retrospect - opinion
The “Madrid Conference” and the bilateral follow-up yielded a number of important achievements for Israel.
THEN-SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev addresses the first meeting of the Mideast peace conference in Madrid on October 30, 1991. Alongside Gorbachev is US President George Bush. At far right is prime minister Yitzhak Shamir.(photo credit: JIM HOLLANDER/REUTERS)