Jordanian premier confers with Arafat

The Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb and the foreign minister Marwan al-Mashar arrived on Sunday in Ramullah and started immediately talks with the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat.

A Jordanian official source in Amman said Abu al-Ragheb and al-Mashar will brief Arafat on the results of the recent visits made by the Jordanian King Abdullah II and the Jordanian efforts made to revive the final status negotiations of the occupied Palestinian territories.