Amman - King Abdullah II of Jordan flew to Riyadh Wednesday for talks with the Saudi leadership at the start of a new round of regional diplomacy to spur the stalled Palestinian-Israeli talks. The visit comes in the wake of what Amman officials labeled as a successful trip to Washington by the Jordanian monarch last week.
King Abdullah planned similar meetings in the coming few days with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, they added.
The monarch is due to brief Saudi King Abdullah later in the day on the outcome of his talks at the White House on April 21 with US President Barack Obama, who voiced strong support to the two-state solution and to the Arab peace initiative.
King Abdullah met with Obama with an authorization from Arab foreign ministers who had met earlier in Amman to push forward the quest of peace on the basis of the Arab blueprint that offers Israel recognition by all Arab states if it quits all Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War, including East Jerusalem.
Jordanian analysts say that King Abdullah's efforts are aimed at mustering world pressure on the Israeli government to force it to accept the two-state solution that envisages the creation of an independent Palestinian state that lives in peace with Israel.
