Jordan calls Bush for firm stance against siege on the Palestinians
Jordan-USA, Politics, 4/19/2002

In a telephone call on Thursday, the Jordanian King Abdullah II called on the US President George Bush to take firm stances in order to push Israel to end its siege of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and to immediately pull out its forces from the Palestinian territories.

Meantime and following his meeting with the chairman of the Palestinian authority in Ramullah, the Jordanian foreign minister Marwan al-Mashaar called for concentration on the political side of the current crisis in the region and not only on the security aspect.

The Jordanian official news agency Petra quoted King Abdullah as saying to Bush "the US has to intensify moves and contacts with sides concerned in order to end the current crisis and to prepare the way for starting peaceful negotiations." King Abdullah added "Israel has to immediately withdraw its forces from the occupied territories including the headquarters of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat."

Petra said that President Bush stressed during the telephone call the determination of the US to continue the efforts it had started to halt violence in the region including the return back of the US secretary of state Colin Powell to the region in order to resume talks with the Palestinian and Israeli officials.

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