Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 2/23/2004
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of February 23, 2004
- Forum of Arab Thought names new secretary general Regional-Jordan, Local, 2/28/2004
- Jordan returns back 15 Palestinians to Jordan, refuses to receive refugees
Jordan announced yesterday that it will not permit refugees from Iraq or the Palestinian territories to enter its lands, noting the return back of a small group of Palestinian refugees who carry Lebanese documents to Lebanon, stressing that "the security fist controls the border with Iraq and any other border point can not be violated." Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 2/25/2004 - Jordan seeks to abrogate an Israeli decision for expelling thousands of Palestinians
The spokeswoman for the Jordanian government, Asmaa al-Khuder, stressed that Jordan got positive indicators through diplomatic contacts with the Israeli government stating the initial consent of the Israeli government to back away from a preliminary decision that bans the travel of citizens of the occupied territories only by Palestinian passports as from the first of March. Jordan-Israel, Politics, 2/23/2004