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Amman, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi Monday discussed with US National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk, Jordanian-US ties and efforts to resolve regional crises.

Safadi and McGurk noted the solid Jordanian-US partnership and the two countries’ interest in further cementing cooperation “to serve the common interests of the two countries.”

The Foreign Minister commended US aid to Jordan’s development process and help to face repercussions from regional crises, underscoring the importance of a memorandum of understanding that frames aid to the Kingdom, which was the longest and largest of four memoranda that have been signed by the two countries.

During the meeting, in which Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the US State Department, took part, McGurk referred to the “historic” partnership with Jordan and the Kingdom’s stabilizing role in the region.

The meeting tackled a number of regional issues, including the Palestinian issue, the Syrian crisis, cooperation in combating terrorism and support for Iraq and Lebanon.

Safadi underlined Washington’s central and leading role in efforts to breathe new life into the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to solve the conflict on the basis of the two-state solution and in line with the international law and approved references.

He valued US support of the two-state solution, rejection of unilateral moves that undermine it and its reiteration of the importance of respecting the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and the holy sites there.

Safadi and McGurk agreed on the need to continue cooperation and coordination in efforts to resolve regional crises and enhance security, stability and development in the region.

Source: Jandan News Agency

Amman, National Forum to Support Resistance and Protect the Homeland on Tuesday held a national event with participation of a number of political parties, national personalities and civil society institutions.

Speaking at the gathering, speakers emphasized the importance of the Hashemite Custodianship over Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem’s Al-Quds Al-Sharif and rejected Israel’s flagrant aggression against Palestinians and holy sites.

The speakers also affirmed Jordanian people’s right to defend Jordan’s and Arab causes and expressed support to Palestinian people to return to their land.

Secretary-General of Islamic Action Front (IAF) Party, Murad Adaileh, said this forum has brought together a “wide” Jordanian participation, based on the Kingdom’s national vision that rejects Israel’s hard-line practices and its threat to Islamic and Christian sanctities in Jerusalem’s Al-Quds Al-Sharif.

Meanwhile, the forum’s head, Abdel-Fattah Kilani, lauded Palestinian people’s steadfastness on their land and their resistance to Israel’s projects, highlighting need for concerted efforts to provide all forms of support for Palestinian resistance efforts.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Baghdad, Lower House Speaker, Ahmad Safadi, said Jordan, under His Majesty King Abdullah II’s leadership, will maintain support to Iraq to eliminate terrorism.

Addressing Iraqi Parliament’s on Wednesday, Safadi noted Jordan stresses importance of building tripartite cooperation between Jordan, Egypt and Iraq and the economic projects agreed upon by the three countries, including electrical interconnection projects.

“As in the summits’ outcomes, It is important to push economic integration to strengthen brotherhood and friendship among the region’s peoples and establish a spirit of tolerance,” he added.

Safadi stressed the necessity of turning brotherly Jordanian-Iraqi relations into “practical” steps that would serve and benefit the two countries’ peoples.

He said Iraq will achieve progress and remain supporter of the Arab nation, which reflects its history and civilization.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman, His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday received a delegation from the Business Executives for American National Security Group (BENS) at Al Husseiniya Palace.

King Abdullah commended the strong, strategic relations between Jordan and the United States, expressing keenness to further enhance relations across all sectors, according to a Royal Court statement.

At the meeting, His Majesty highlighted the importance of expanding cooperation to counter joint global challenges, especially those connected to food security, energy, and climate change, it said.

The meeting also covered regional and international developments, foremost of which is the Palestinian cause, the statement said.

BENS is a nonprofit, nonpartisan US-based network of business and industry executives who apply best business practices to address security challenges facing the United States.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Director of the Office of His Majesty Jafar Hassan attended the meeting.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman, The Public Security Directorate (PSD) called on the public to exercise caution due to the expected cold air mass associated with a depression that will affect the Kingdom on Monday.

The PSD urged the public to observe traffic rules on roads with low horizontal visibility in the early morning due to the formation of fog, especially over the southern heights, or where it may witness rainfall.

The PSD also warned of flood formation in valleys and low-altitude areas, mainly in the southern and eastern parts of the country, urging the public not to risk crossing the road, whether on foot or by vehicle.

It also called on the public to ensure the safe use of heaters and to ventilate residences occasionally, urging the public to call 911 in the case of an emergency.

Source: JordanNews Agency

Amman, In continuation of last week meeting of His Majesty King Abdullah with representatives and leading figures from Aqaba, and upon royal directives, Royal Hashemite Court Chief Yousef Issawi on Saturday met with the city’s representatives to find out their demands, proposals and needs.

Issawi, who is also head of the follow up committee for the implementation of Royal initiatives, said this meeting held under direct royal directives, to complete the discussion about priorities, demands and needs of the city of Aqaba.

His Majesty the King always stresses the importance of easing pressure on citizens and finding opportunities to reduce poverty and unemployment, especially by supporting small and medium projects and home projects for youth, women and associations, and facilitating the process of financing and licensing this type of project, Issawi said in the meeting, held in the Royal Hashemite Court.

He added that there is a royal interest in these projects, which will have a great impact on the development of Aqaba in various fields, which will reflect positively on providing jobs and improving the quality of services provided to the people of Aqaba and Jordanians in general.

He noted that several projects of royal initiatives were implemented during the past years, in various regions of Aqaba Governorate, covering many development and service sectors.

He pointed out that the focus will be, during the next stage, on productive and development projects that provide jobs for young people.

For their part, Aqaba representatives and leading figures stressed the importance of the King’s visits to the city, which reflect His Majesty’s keenness to continuously communicate with the sons and daughters of the region to check on their needs and demands and listen to them.

The speakers also highlighted a number of issues in Aqaba Governorate. They called for supporting the tourism and economic sector, improving the infrastructure, and providing job opportunities for young people, which would eradicate poverty and unemployment, in addition to activating the Youth and Entrepreneurship Commission to be an incubator for the rehabilitation and training of young people and owners of small projects.

They also called for establishing alternative energy projects that contribute to providing electricity and water for the governorate, and help reduce burdens on all segments of society and investments and enhance the tourism and investment attraction of the city, as a tourist hub.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) personnel arrested a person in possession of 200,000 counterfeit dollar bills.

In a statement on Thursday, media spokesperson for the Public Security Directorate (PSD) said CID agents tracked information for weeks about a person in Jerash governorate, in possession of a quantity of counterfeit currency and is phoning another person to sell those fake bills.

A special investigative team followed up the case and monitored the suspect to spot the place where he hid the counterfeit dollars and seize the fake cash ahead of being traded in the local market, the spokesperson said.

Then, detectors affirmed information that the suspect struck an agreement to sell the fake currency to a person, and identified the place of handing over the counterfeit dollars in the capital, Amman, the official pointed out.

Police then raided and arrested the suspected person, in his possession of 200,000 fake dollars, who was taken to follow up investigations, the official noted.

Source: Jordan News Agency

New York, The UN Wednesday said the Security Council is holding a session Thursday to discuss the tension in occupied Jerusalem after a far-right Israeli minister stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The UAE, the only Arab member of the UN Security Council, had called for the session to be public and open, where member states could participate and make official statements.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Lower House Tuesday condemned Israel’s new far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of Al-Aqsa mosque compound along with a group of extremist Jewish settlers.

Ben-Gvir arrived early today at the compound, Islam’s third holiest shrine, on his first visit to the flashpoint site since taking his ministerial post in the new far-right government, despite warnings from the opposition.

“This behavior is a violation of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, a provocation worthy of condemnation and a flagrant and unacceptable violation of the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its sanctities,” the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee said in a statement.

It reiterated that the ongoing violations and attacks on Palestinian sacred places herald in further escalation and represent a “dangerous orientation that the international community should immediately work to stop.”

The committee held Israel fully responsible for the “dangerous consequences of this escalation, which undermines all efforts that had been made to prevent an escalation of violence that threatens regional security and stability”, stressing the need for settlers to stop the provocation, violations of religious sanctities and “brutal” attacks on Palestinians.

Source: Jordan News Agency

An investigation team of the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) arrested a “dangerous” drug dealer, who is also wanted in a murder case in the Mafraq governorate.

Media spokesman for the Public Security Department (PSD) said the team located the suspect, who had been using a tent in a remote desert location to stash drugs. A task force raided the tent at dawn Tuesday and arrested the wanted man and two other individuals, seizing 100,000 narcotic pills and several firearms and ammunition.

Source: Jordan News Agency