On Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, at Tahrir Palace in Cairo ahead of an emergency Arab League (AL) foreign ministers' meeting set for later today in Cairo. The leaders underscored the the urgency of ending foreign interference in Arab region.
In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said that Shoukry and Safadi stressed the necessity of halting all foreign interference in Arab affairs and opting for political solutions to all regional crises so as to maintain security and stability and preserve the peoples' rights.
The two ministers also covered the Arab Council emergency meeting on Palestine which is convened upon an Egyptian-Jordanian initiative to affirm the constant Arab principles regarding the Palestinian issue, with an eye on exerting efforts to provide the proper political atmosphere to bring the Palestinian and Israeli sides back on the negotiating track.
The Egyptian and Jordanian FMs also reviewed regional issues of mutual concern and discussed means to boost bilateral relations, the statement added.
The two countries agreed that the AL foreign ministers' emergency meeting comes to “emphasize the fundamentals of the Arab stance towards the Palestinian cause and the endeavour to provide the political climate required for the re-engagement of the Palestinian and Israeli sides in a serious negotiation path,” the statement said.
Egypt and Jordan have cooperated to revive the frozen Israel-Palestinian peace process at the quartet level with Germany and France, and at the tripartite level with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki in Cairo.
Follow the latest news on Google News
