Jordan's King in Cairo for Talks with Mubarak on Mideast SituationJordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Cairo November 26 on a one-day visit to Egypt for talks with President Hosni Mubarak on the latest situation in the Palestinian territories, the official Middle East News Agency reported.The two leaders were expected to focus on the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli clashes, characterized by Israel's continuing attacks on Palestinians, as well as on making efforts to halt the Israeli excessive use of force. Jordan, the only Arab country apart from Egypt to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, has grown increasingly critical of the Jewish state's actions with regard to the Palestinians. It has withheld from dispatching its new ambassador to Tel Aviv as a replacement to the previous envoy who retired. The Jordan leader's visit came one day after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met with him in Amman and Mubarak in Cairo respectively to brief the two leaders on the results of his visit to Moscow. Arafat paid a visit to Russia on Friday, during which President Vladimir Putin brokered a telephone conversation between the him and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the first such contact in three weeks. Arafat and Barak pledged to study the details of a new Russian initiative to end the two-month Palestinian-Israeli clashes, which have killed over 270 people, mostly Palestinians, and injured thousands more. Putin has proposed to send international observers to the trouble spots to help end the violence. |
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