Jordan is actively pursuing pan-Arab solidarity to address challenges facing the Arab world and bring about much-needed all-encompassing development through the region, Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Abdulkarim Dughmi said Thursday.
Addressing the 32nd conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) currently underway in Cairo, Dughmi said that pan-Arab solidarity is the only lever to overcome the crises and challenges facing the Arab world, which, according to Dughmi, has become an arena for conflicts, crises, and challenges.
The House Speaker warned that the “Arab system’s” resilience was receding after wars destroyed the infrastructure in some countries and displaced millions of refugees to different parts of the world, at a time when “the specter of terrorism and extremism is still striking.”
“Today’s world is experiencing a very complex conflict that is pushing towards a new international order, which will redraw the geopolitical maps in the world, especially in our Arab region in particular,” Dughmi indicated.
He said that Jordan managed, during the past years, to defeat terrorists at the military and intellectual levels, and today it is fighting a war with drug dealers who seek to spread this scourge in the Arab region and the Gulf states in particular.
The House Speaker indicated that the Israeli occupation is the prime danger to the region, which pushed it to the abyss of violence, and said that after decades of talking about peace, this only resulted in more oppression, racial discrimination and violation of rights.
In this context, Dughmi stressed that the Kingdom will continue to support the Palestinian people in their quest for freedom, reiterating the Kingdom’s stance that the only solution to the Palestinian issue is the two-state formula.
Source: Jordan News Agency