Jordanian efforts for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations

Jordanian efforts for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations
Abdul Rahim Hussein, and agencies (Ramallah) - The Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh yesterday that his country would continue unremitting efforts for the resumption of negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides after the failure of "exploratory interviews" in Amman during the month of January. He said in a brief statement after he was met by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, "There are intensive meetings will be held in the near future."

The quality, during a joint news conference with the Director of Negotiations Affairs Department in the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, said "the talks exploratory aim was to provide the proper climate for the resumption of bilateral negotiations and direct between the two sides, and effort of Jordan continues to provide the appropriate conditions and catalyst for the resumption of the negotiations, and there will be meetings to come in the near future. " The match Jordanian and Palestinian positions at the negotiations, saying that "we know that Israel is a unilateral action and that the settlement is illegal, but coordination is important in the next stage and the position of Jordan is in full conformity with the position of the Palestinian Authority." He continued, "we emphasized that coordination is important in the next phase so as not to provide a pretext for the Israeli side to continue in these illegal actions, and that would undermine the chances for peace, our position and we are completely identical with the position of the Palestinian leadership." He said the quality of "The best way to reach the aspirations and hopes of the Palestinian people to establish their own Palestinian negotiations, which is the address all final status issues and means Jordan directly." "These are circumstances in which we live is accurate in all circumstances the concept of the word and its meaning, so we emphasized the need for coordination, so that the positions are always identical and the position will be stronger and harder." He concluded by saying that "Jordan's continuous effort to search for opportunities to revive the peace negotiations, and we are still left and we will contact with everyone in the region and outside the region and the influential capitals and places of decision-making to ensure appropriate conditions and catalyst for the resumption of negotiations."

Erekat and saw that the efforts of Jordan did not stop the end of the "exploratory meetings," the former. "The Jordanian effort did not fail, and it was clear from the outset that he is still exploratory interviews of these efforts are being made." He stressed that the Palestinian side has never been against negotiations, but demands the commitment of Israel to halt settlement activity and to recognize the 1967 borders. "These are not conditions but obligations"