Kings Mohammed and Abdallah renew support to Arab peace initiative
Jordan-Morocco, Politics, 5/30/2002

Morocco's King Mohammed VI of Morocco, in his official visit to Jordan, and King Abdallah of Jordan renewed support to the Arab peace initiative.

The two kings renewed backing to the Arab initiative and praised Arab and international efforts meant to end the cycle of violence and Israel's military escalation against the Palestinian people, said Hassan Aourid, Official spokesman of the Moroccan Royal Palace.

The Arab peace initiative, brokered by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah Ibn Abdelaziz and adopted by the Arab Summit of Beirut, Lebanon (end of last march), offers Israel normal relations with Arab countries in exchange of a withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders.

King Mohammed VI and King Abdallah stressed Tuesday the need for more efforts to gather conditions for direct negotiations between the parties concerned in order to establish peace and security in the Middle-East, said the spokesman.

The two heads of state underscored the need to consider the Arab peace initiative as a pre-requisite for any international conference on peace in the Middle-East, on the basis of Israeli forces withdrawal from the Palestinian territories, re-invaded since September 2000, and in accordance with the Madrid conference which supports the land-for-peace principle, with international legality resolutions and on the basis of a timetable of negotiations over all aspects of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

The two heads of state further called all parties, particularly USA, Russia Ðas co-sponsors of the Middle East peace process, the European Union and the UNO to intensify efforts to back the Arab peace initiative and encourage the peace dynamic to which the Arab summit of Beirut called, in the perspective of guaranteeing security and stability for all peoples of the region.

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