President and members of the Jordan-African Parliamentary Friendship Association met Tuesday with South Africa Ambassador to Jordan, Ebrahim Saley.
The meeting discussed relations between the two friendly countries and ways to enhance them in all fields, especially parliamentary fields.
During the meeting, the association president MP Dina Bashir said that Jordan, under the leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah, has a firm and solid stance towards the Palestinian cause so that Palestinian brothers could attain their right to establish their independent state on their national soil.
She stressed that the Hashemite custodianship over Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem constitutes a guarantee to protect Jerusalem and preserve its Arabness, lauding the King’s efforts in defending Jerusalem in all regional and international forums.
Bashir stressed the importance of strengthening Jordanian relations with South Africa and framing them at various levels to serve the common interests of both countries and the two friendly peoples.
She called for enhancing aspects of bilateral cooperation between the two sides in economic, investment, educational, tourism and agricultural fields, underlining the need to open new horizons, especially between the private sector in both countries, through exchanging visits, enhancing communication, and benefiting from available opportunities and competitive advantage.
For their part, MPs Yazan Shdeifat, Hadia Al-Sarhan, Mohammad Al-Maharmah and Ghazi Al-Badawi, stressed the need to boost bilateral ties and mechanisms to advance them and open new doors of cooperation in the parliamentary, economic, investment, commercial, tourism, cultural and educational fields.
Source: Jordan News Gazette