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Jordan's King: Two-State Solution Key to Middle East Peace

Dale Gavlak

   AMMAN - A U.S. delegation led by White House senior adviser Jared
   Kushnerheld talks Wednesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II about ways
   to revive the Mideast peace process.

   The Americans are seeking to finalize details of aproposed $50 billion
   economic development plan for the Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt and
   Lebanon.Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and Brian Hook, the U.S.
   special representative for Iran and senior adviser to the U.S.
   secretary of state, are part of the delegation, which will also visit
   Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

   In Amman, Abdullah reaffirmed his position that the establishment of a
   Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital,alongside Israel
   is the only way to resolve the long-simmering crisis,a statement from
   Jordan's royal court said.

   The king also said that any peace plan needed to be implemented in
   accordance with the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which called on Israel
   to pull back from all land it occupied in 1967 in exchange for
   normalized Israeli-Arab relations.

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