provide for secure and recognized international borders between israel and a viable, anç contiguous palestine, negotiated based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed equivalent swaps. resolution 242 which has been enshrined in international law for 50 years, provides for the withdrawal of israel from territory it occupied in 1967 in return for peace with its neighbors and secure and recognized borders. it has long been accepted by both sides, and it remains the basis for an agreement today. as secretary one of the first eschews that i worked out with the arab league was theirç agreement that the reference in the arab peace initiative to the 1967 lines would from now on include the concept of land swaps, which the palestinians have acknowledged.