Day: September 5, 2022

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Health

King inaugurates Latrun Military Hospital in south Amman

His Majesty King Abdullah, the Supreme Commander of the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army, on Monday inaugurated Latrun Military Hospital in Juwaideh, in south Amman.

King Abdullah listened to a briefing, attended by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maj. Gen. Yousef Hneiti, on the hospital’s capacities and the Royal Medical Services’ development plans.

His Majesty toured the 6,700 square metre facility, which has a capacity of 105 beds.

The hospital includes emergency, operations, internal diseases, intensive care, and radiation wards, as well as several specialised clinics.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Government Policy

PM dismisses claims gov’t misuses national resources

Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh Monday dismissed as “mere fabrications and an utter lie” allegations by “a few haters of the country” that the government had used national resources contrary to the Jordanian constitution and legislation.

In comments during a Lower House session, Khasawneh hailed “a collective sense of responsibility” by both legislative and executive authorities in responding to such allegations, that are “entirely false, and are not worthy of us as government, House of Representatives and vast majority of the people of this honorable homeland.”

Jordan is a state of institutions and law that upholds the national fundamentals and maximizes national capabilities to uplift the country according to the constitution and legislation, he said.

“No one can outbid the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, neither the people nor the leadership or the legislative and executive authorities,” he warned.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Fashion

“Dana+20” workshop to kick off Wednesday

Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal, “Dana+20: Mobile Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Climate Change” will be held between 7-10 September at Wadi Dana Nature Reserve. The event is organized by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature in Jordan (RSCN) in cooperation with the Refugee Studies Centre from the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) – an international NGO.

As the 20th anniversary of the Dana Declaration, which was signed in Wadi Dana in 2002, approaches, the workshop will take stock of ecological, and technical developments of the past two decades and bring the implications for local communities to the attention of global forums. The Dana+20 workshop aspires to outline forward-moving ways in consultation, with local community representatives, to improve engagement on the interrelated priorities of conservation, climate adaptation / resilience, habitat loss and sustainable development.

The workshop conference seeks to work with local communities as rights holders and change agents to reconfirm, direct and review ways to improve participation and maintain sustainability in the interrelated priorities of environmental conservation, climate change adaptation, and natural habitat protection.

Establishing a strategic framework to reduce the marginalization of local communities is a crucial objective of the conference, in addition to addressing the issues faced by local communities in the context of the aforementioned priorities At the close of the workshop a Dana+20 statement will be delivered.

The funders of the workshop include, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, University of Nevada, the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Misereor, and United Nations Development Program Small Grants Program UNDP/GEF.

To this end, the conference will also aim to develop an action plan to advance the rights of local communities in international and national policy-making on protected areas. And other non-governmental organizations through a detailed work program to mainstream the concerns of local communities concerning adaptation to climate change and sustainable development models.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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Affairs

Jordan, Tunisia talk economic, trade cooperation

Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) President Hamdi Tabbaa met Tunisian Ambassador Khalid Suhaili on Monday to discuss prospects for boosting joint investments and increasing two-way trade.

During the meeting, Tabbaa pointed to the possibility of drawing up an action plan with Tunisia, which has good relations with African countries, to increase the chance of Jordanian products to access the continent.

The Jordanian-Tunisian ties significantly grew in the past few years, he emphasized, pointing to the Jordanian-Tunisian Business Council’s key role in this regard.

Tabbaa called on the Tunisian business community to visit Jordan and look firsthand at investment opportunities, pointing to the Kingdom’s strategic location and political and financial stability as well as free trade agreements it signed with Arab and foreign countries.

For his part, the Tunisian envoy reaffirmed the deep-rooted ties with Jordan, commending the JBA’s role in strengthening economic relations between the two nations.

He underscored the embassy will keep channels open with the JBA and cooperate with it in holding events, particularly the periodic meetings of the Jordanian-Tunisian Business Council.

Trade exchange between the two countries amounted to USD23 million in 2020, about 9.1 million of which were exports of pharmaceuticals, electric tools, and fertilizers, while imports constituted 13.9 million of inorganic chemicals, fish, machinery, and electrical equipment.

Source: Jordan News Agency