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Jordan urges EU to ensure resumption of direct Mideast talks
Dec 12, 2010, 17:52 GMT
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II met on Sunday with ambassadors of European Union countries and urged a greater EU role to ensure the resumption of the stalled direct talks between the Palestinians and Israel, according to a royal court statement.
'The monarch underscored the importance of the European role in surmounting the obstacles that prevent the achievement of progress towards the solution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state vision,' the statement said.
King Abdullah warned against 'dealing with the peace process through a method of crisis management that perpetuates the status quo', a reference to Israel's refusal to extend the moratorium on building of settlements that prompted Palestinians to withdraw from the talks at end of September.
'Such approach will enhance tension and lead to the explosion of the crisis with the entire world paying the price,' the monarch was quoted as telling the envoys.
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