The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. President Carter and the U.S. government played a leading role in creating the opportunity for this agreement. From the beginning of his term, Carter and his Foreign Minister, Cyrus Vance, continued intense negotiations with Arab and Israeli leaders, hoping to reconvene the Geneva Conference, launched in December 1973 to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although the agreements were a historic agreement between two parties, often at odds, and Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of this achievement (Jimmy Carter would win in 2002″for his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts), their overall importance is controversial because the region is still mired in conflict. The Camp David Agreements were some political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978[1] after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the site of the U.S. President`s withdrawal in Maryland. [2] The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were attested by President Jimmy Carter. The second framework (a framework for the conclusion of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel) led directly to the 1979 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. Under the agreement, Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. The first framework (a framework for peace in the Middle East) dealing with the Palestinian territories was written without the participation of the Palestinians and condemned by the United Nations.
This was due to the zeal of NATO countries to improve Egypt`s troubled economy, the belief that Egypt should begin to focus more on its own interests than on those of the Arab world, and the hope that an agreement with Israel would catalyze similar agreements between Israel and its other Arab neighbours and help solve the Palestinian problem. Prime Minister Begin`s reaction to Sadat`s initiative, even if sadat or Carter had not hoped, showed a willingness to engage the Egyptian head of state. Like Sadat, Begin saw many reasons why bilateral discussions would be in his country`s best interest.