Petra News Agency
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Judeh calls for support of
Mideast peace efforts
Sharm el-Sheikh, July 14 (Petra) -- Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said today
that Jordan's efforts led by His Majesty King Abdullah II were continuing as
part of a coordinated regional Arab effort to achieve peace in the Middle East
based on the two-state solution.
"The two-state solution guarantees the establishment of an independent,
sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,"
Judeh added in remarks at the preparatory ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) Summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
He said that a solution should come about within the context of a just and
comprehensive peace in line with relevant U.
N resolutions and in line with the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
Jordan, the minister added, welcomed commitment to peacemaking by the
international community, namely U.
S President Barack Obama's administration.
Judeh stressed the important role by Washington in achieving the two-state
solution and ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"Today, there are indications of a genuine opportunity to bring about peace in
the region," he said, stressing the need to intensify efforts in the coming
phase to put peace negotiations back on track.
The foreign minister called for an end to Israeli settlement activities and
other unilateral moves in the occupied West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem.
"We in Jordan believe that international cooperation and solidarity for peace
and development is achievable if there is a political will and a renewed
confidence in multilateral diplomacy to develop and reform the United Nations so
that it can carry out its role in the 21st century," Jude said.
The minister stressed the need to reinvigorate the Non-Aligned Movement to
ensure that it assumed a vital role in enhancing the U.
N as a key player in preserving international peace and security and achieving
development and stability.
"Realizing a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict that
guarantees restoration of the legitimate rights of Palestinians, mainly their
right to self-determination and the setting up of their independent state on
their national soil, is a top priority for Jordan," Judeh added.
The minister said the kingdom was looking forward to working with influential
world powers to achieve the two-state solution within a set timetable, stressing
the need not to miss the current opportunity to achieve the aspired peace.
He warned that failure to achieve the two-state solution and peace in the Middle
East would have enormous repercussions that would go beyond the region as the
Palestinian issue and the absence of peace in the region were no longer a
regional matter, but rather an international problem.
"Once again, Arabs had renewed their commitment to a just peace in the
recently-held Doha Summit in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and
international terms of reference as a strategic Arab choice," he told officials
from the 118-member NAM.
Judeh urged the Non-Aligned Movement, which had been a backer of Palestinian and
Arab political aspirations to put their weight behind efforts to achieve the
two-state solution.