Amman - Jordan's king King Abdullah II conferred Tuesday with the visiting Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on the "humanitarian catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip and urged world pressure on Israel to stop its offensive, the royal court said. "The monarch stressed the urgent need for an effective world attitude that forces Israel to stop its aggression in compliance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1860," a royal court statement said.
"The cessation of the Israeli aggression should be followed by a serious international effort to find a solution to the conflict based on the two-state formula that ensures the setting up of an independent Palestinian state," the statement quoted the king as saying.
Amorim visited later in the day the headquarters of the Hashemite Charity Organization which handles aid from Jordan and other countries to the beleaguered Gaza Strip.
He also met in Amman with the Palestinian Minister of Social Affairs Mahmoud Habbash to coordinate the dispatch of 14 tons of Brazilian relief aid to the Palestinians in Gaza.
