Saudi- Jordanian call to adopt crown prince Abdullah's initiative
Saudi Arabia-Jordan, Politics, 4/23/2002

The Saudi crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz and the Jordanian King Abdullah on Sunday evening in Casablanca expressed their support for a "peace with security and stability to all countries of the region," this was expressed prior to the meeting to be held in Texas between the Saudi crown prince and the US President George Bush after two days ( on Thursday), at a time the Moroccan King Muhammad VI started a visit to the USA.

Both Saudi Arabia and Jordan renewed their call on Israel to pullout its forces from the Palestinian territories and to "establish the state of Palestine on its national soil with Jerusalem as a capital."

The Saudi news agency said that prince Abdullah held on Sunday a meeting at his residence in Morocco with King Abdullah during which "current conditions in the Middle East were discussed, foremost being the Palestinian question and the occupied Arab territories and the sufferings of the Palestinian people and their leadership."

The Saudi crown prince and King Abdullah called for the "need of finding out a durable and just peace that gives security and stability to all countries of the region as well as the Arab peace initiative proposed by the Saudi crown prince Abdullah to solve the Middle East question, an initiative which was approved by the recent Lebanon's Arab summit conference." The initiative states normal relations with Israel for its pullout from the occupied Arab territories in 1967.

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