June 24, 2007
Jordan's King Meets Abbas
Ahead of Egypt Summit
Amman
Jordan's King Abdullah II conferred Sunday with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas on the agenda of the upcoming four-party
conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, and
urged participants to come up with a definite plan for re-launching
the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
"The monarch underscored the importance of seizing this opportunity
for producing a clearly defined vision along with a timetable for
re-launching the negotiation process," a royal court statement said.
The meeting, which comes on the heels of Hamas' takeover of the Gaza
Strip, is due to group Abdullah, Abbas, the Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak.
Abdullah urged Arab countries and the world community to extend
support to "efforts under way for resuming the peace process", which
he said should lead to the setting up of an independent Palestinian
state that lives in peace with Israel.
In addition to the resumption of the peace talks, Abdullah said that
the quadruple conference "should discuss possible means for
supporting the Palestinian people and lifting the siege" that was
imposed on the Palestinian areas by world donors after Hamas'
sweeping victory at polls 18 months ago.
The Jordanian monarch said his country "rejected the latest split in
the Palestinian society and called for putting the Palestinian house
in order by letting the supreme Palestinian interest to prevail over
the dangerous spill-overs" of Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Responding to reporters' questions after the meeting, Abbas renewed
his refusal to open dialogue with Hamas, which he accused of staging
a "coup" in the Gaza Strip.
He called for a "political horizon in the forthcoming stage that
falls in conformity with the relevant UN resolutions and US
President George W. Bush's vision" for creating an independent
Palestinian state.
Asked whether he expected Olmert to extend any thing to him during
the summit, Abbas said, "We have received promises from US and
Israeli parties, but the important thing is to find these promises
honoured on the ground."
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