US, Jordanian experts meet on amending UN sanctions on Iraq
Jordan-USA, Politics, 4/6/2001

The US state department on Thursday announced that the US and Jordan agreed on Wednesday to hold talks at the level of experts concerning the US proposals aiming at making amendment in the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq.

News reports quoted the spokesman for the US state department Richard Boucher as saying following a lunch and work meeting between the Jordanian King Abdullah II and the US state department secretary Colin Powell that both sides agreed to hold talks at the level of experts in the coming weeks.

Boucher explained that these talks will be concentrated on certain points with the aim of alleviating sanctions pertaining to providing Iraq with necessary items and commodities needed for civilians and to tighten sanctions imposed on military equipment.

Boucher noted that the Jordanian King and Powell also discussed efforts aiming at resuming negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

He added that the UN and Jordan are intending to exert utmost efforts to ease down the conditions and to help the two sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians to put an end to clashes between the two sides and ensure the restoration of normal life for the peoples of the region and to return back to the path of peace.

Boucher continued that the two men also discussed bilateral relations between the two countries especially in the commercial field.

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