A royal court statement said that the king’s remarks came during a meeting with chief editors of local newspapers whom he briefed on the outcome of his talks in Washington earlier last week with US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
“The king warned that the failure of the negotiations will reflect negatively on all parties and that all states of the world and the region will pay the price, because the alternative will be more wars and conflicts,” the statement said.
The king told the top media men that the direct talks which were re-launched in Washington on Thursday “provides an opportunity for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict if the parties deal with the negotiations in a positive manner so that all final status issues are addressed within the two-state vision.”
Abdallah considered the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian soil “a strategic interest” for Jordan, which he said would continue to provide “backing for the Palestinian brethren in their quest to accomplish freedom and statehood.”
The king said that Obama had assured him of his “personal commitment to achieving peace on the basis of the two-state solution that guarantees the setting up of an independent Palestinian state that lives in peace with Israel.”
