Day: April 18, 2022

Arab League Secretary-General, Ahmad Aboul Gheit, and Deputy Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya for Political Affairs, Stephanie Williams, Monday held a meeting on the developments in Libya.

An official in the Arab League General Secretariat said that Williams briefed Aboul Gheit on the latest developments in Libya.

The meeting talked about the potential international and MENA region scenarios and developments and how they could impact Libya.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

Jordan is poised to host an emergency meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee in charge of international action to encounter Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem this Thursday.

The meeting will discuss the Israeli authorities’ escalation and transgressions in the Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in occupied Jerusalem and necessary action.

The committee, chaired by Jordan, comprises; Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, the State of Palestine, Qatar, Egypt and Morocco. The United Arab Emirates, as a member of the Security Council, will participate in the committee meeting in Amman, which will be attended by the Secretary-General of the Arab League.

Furthermore, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Safadi Safadi, continued Jordan’s efforts to formulate an effective and pressing international position to stop the illegal Israeli measures in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He met with the ambassadors of the European Union and European countries in Amman.

He warned of the gravity of the situation in occupied Jerusalem, stressing the need to launch an immediate international action to pressure Israel to stop violating the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to respect the historical and legal situation in the city.

Safadi, who is Deputy Prime Minister, said the historical and legal situation in Jerusalem means that the Jordanian Jerusalem Islamic Waqf is the only entity charged with allowing non-Muslim visitors into the holy Mosque.

He stressed that maintaining calm, for which everyone worked, requires respect for the historical and legal situation in the sanctuaries and the right of worshipers to practice their religious rites during the month of Ramadan, as well as the cessation of all illegal measures and restrictions on Palestinians.

Safadi emphasised that tension will continue and escalate if a real political horizon is not found to realise peace based on the two-state solution, warning that the current situation in which prospects for progress towards a peaceful solution are absent and economic challenges for the Palestinians are exacerbated cannot continue.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) Executive Director Abdel Fattah Kayed and an Azerbaijani delegation, led by Small and Medium Business Development Agency of Azerbaijan (SMBDA) Chairman Orkhan Mammadov, on Monday discussed bilateral cooperation.

The delegation looked firsthand at JEDCO’s projects for small and medium enterprises in the industrial, agricultural, and service sectors, in addition to its work mechanism and plans for the next three years.

According to a JEDCO statement, Kayed said the visit comes in implementation of cooperation protocols to develop the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector and explore its prospects for the two countries.

JEDCO seeks to make use of formal meetings and keep pace with government efforts to enhance relations with friendly countries, thus enabling Jordanian companies to grow and build partnerships, he added.

For his part, Mammadov expressed interest in future cooperation to develop programs benefiting enterprises in both countries.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

Prime Minister, Bisher Khasawneh, said that Jordan’s overall situations are strong and solid and the national economy is full of capabilities and monetary and financial stability.

Speaking to a Lower House meeting on Monday, Khasawneh said “Jordan is resilient and far from risks associated with terms such as bankruptcy, and according to the World Bank, which confirmed that Jordan is more immune from being affected by the Russian-Ukrainian crisis due to its strategic and secure stock of wheat and barley, which is sufficient for more than a year.”

He pointed out that international credit rating agencies have confirmed Jordan’s credit rating as safe, noting that the government, in cooperation with the Lower House of Parliament, has achieved targets of the general budget law for the last year.

The Prime Minister indicated that the government achieved 104 per cent of its target revenue last year, and achieved growth, in cooperation with the house’s committees in the last quarter of last year, that compensated for the negative growth during the Covid-19 crisis.

He added: “We have $17 billion in foreign exchange reserves, a historical and unprecedented figure in Jordan,” lauding the role of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance in maintaining public finances.

“In the last year and a half, the government completed 3 successful reviews linked to structural economic reforms, according to international institutions,” Khasawneh noted.

The Premier explained that Jordan went through a strange decade that saw many crises and turmoil in the region, which impacted the national economy, in addition to the Covid-19 crisis, which negatively affected the economies of the world.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

Bangladesh on Monday said it strongly condemned the violence unleashed against innocent worshippers and civilians at the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in occupied East Jerusalem by occupying Israeli forces.

“Bangladesh expresses deep concern over the violations of basic civil norms, international human rights laws and international accords by the Israeli forces which has invoked sympathy of millions of oppressed people around the world,” Bangladesh embassy in Amman said in a statement.

Bangladesh said it believed that the freedom of religion is a fundamental human right which must be upheld and the right of practicing religious rituals particularly in the holy month of Ramadan must be ensured.

Bangladesh urged the international community to take sustained measures to end such attacks, cease detaining and hindering the medical treatment to the wounded civilians and to end the heinous actions in the occupied territories.

According to the statement “Bangladesh firmly supports the inalienable rights of the people of Palestine for a sovereign and independent homeland and reaffirms its position in favor of establishing an independent state of Palestine on the basis of two-state solution.”

Bangladesh reiterated its position that a lasting solution to the Palestine issue would be possible only with the engagement of both sides in cordial dialogue and called upon all parties to work towards this end.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

The Jordanian Engineers Association (JEA) and representatives of the German Embassy in Amman on Sunday discussed ways to enhance cooperation and partnership, on order to find jobs for Jordanian engineers in Germany, and to implement joint projects and programs.

Bashar Al-Tarawneh, a JEA member, said that the meeting is a continuation of efforts aimed to cooperate with the German official authorities, to achieve the vision of the JEA Council within its strategic plan to have access to non-traditional foreign markets.

He indicated that Jordanian engineers have made significant progress in learning the German language program, and some of them applied for interviews and were able to travel to Germany, and in advanced stages to start working there, in addition to groups that were able to complete postgraduate studies there with almost zero cost, benefiting from mastering the German language.

He stressed the need to enhance cooperation to explore the possibility of conducting training programs in Germany to contribute to qualifying Jordanian engineers and grant them initial experience to work in the German market.

The meeting highlighted requirements of the German labor market in terms of education, expertise and required courses, and covered requirements for exporting engineering work to Germany, as well as clarifying ways of Jordanian certificates equivalency to match the German labor market and its requirements.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants on Monday summoned the Israeli Chargé d’Affairs in Amman to protest against illegal and provocative Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in occupied Jerusalem, and urging Israel to respect freedom of worship.

Ministry spokesman Haitham Abul Ful said the Chargé d’Affairs was handed a letter of protest to his government, including a demand to immediately cease Israeli violations and attempts to change the historical and legal status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif and impose a temporal and spatial division of the holy compound.

He said Israeli actions are a serious escalation and a violation of the international law and Israel’s obligations as the occupying power.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

His Majesty King Abdullah, in a series of phone calls on Monday with Arab, European, and UN leaders, discussed the latest developments related to the Palestinian cause and the recent violations in Jerusalem.

King Abdullah discussed the Israeli escalations in Jerusalem in separate phone calls with King Mohammed VI of Morocco, chairman of Al Quds Committee, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces.

Discussions in the phone calls covered the need to maintain coordination and step up all efforts at the regional and international levels to cease the Israeli escalation in Jerusalem, end violations against the city, its holy sites and people, and create political horizons that fulfil the just rights of the Palestinian people, on the basis of the two-state solution.

His Majesty underscored the importance of stopping all illegal and provocative Israeli measures in Jerusalem that violate the historical and legal status quo at Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif and push towards further escalation.

The King noted that maintaining calm requires Israel to respect the historical and legal status quo at Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif.

Discussions in the phone calls also covered bilateral ties and means of bolstering cooperation across all fields.

Speaking with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Council President Charles Michel, His Majesty discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian arena and their negative repercussions on peace and security regionally and internationally.

The King warned that unilateral Israeli measures in the Palestinian Territories could compromise the two-state solution and prospects of comprehensive peace, expressing rejection of attempts to alter the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem.

His Majesty reiterated that any attempts seeking the temporal and spatial division of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif are condemned and rejected, noting the need to protect worshippers and refrain from measures to obstruct access to the mosque or provoke worshippers, especially during Ramadan.

SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY

A slight rise in temperatures is expected on Monday, recording 9-11 degrees Celsius above annual average, and bringing hot, dusty and dry weather in most parts of the country, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily update.

Clouds will appear at different altitudes, and winds will be southeasterly to southwesterly moderate to brisk.

on Tuesday, a moderate air mass is forecast to move through the Kingdom, pushing temperatures down to its annual average and bringing pleasant spring weather nationwide. Clouds will build up at different altitudes, while winds will be northwesterly active and stirring dust in the Badia.

Another drop in mercury levels is expected on Wednesday with similar weather conditions prevailing in the mountains and the plains, while it will be moderate elsewhere, the JMD added.

Mercury in Amman today will range between a high of 34 degrees Celsius and a low of 17C at night, while the port city of Aqaba will see a high of 37C, sliding to 22C at night.

Source: Jordan News Agency