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Jordan sees Israel's unilateral steps impeding peace

Posted : Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:49:01 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Middle East (World)
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Amman- Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Bashir conferred Sunday with Arab lawmakers at the Israeli Knesset and cautioned that Israeli unilateral moves could derail peace talks with the Palestinians. "Israel's unilateral measures and practices in the Palestinian territories will have a negative impact on the peace process and efforts under way to reach a solution for the Middle East conflict," Bashir was quoted as saying.

"The continuation of settlement activity in the Palestinian territories will impede any progress" in the ongoing negotiations in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on core issues, he added.

Bashir referred mainly to Israel's continuing siege of the Gaza Strip and the continued settlement activity in East Jerusalem, which was part of the Hashemite Kingdom when the Jewish state captured the Arab part of the holy city in 1967.

The Jordanian foreign minister and the visiting Arab deputies at the Israeli parliament were in agreement that "the understandings reached at the Annapolis conference and the road map should be honoured in the run-up for reaching a just and durable solution", an official statement said.

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