Munich: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, on Saturday held talks with a number of his counterparts and officials participating in the Munich Security Conference (MSC).
Talks covered bilateral ties and regional issues, including the Palestinian cause.
Safadi said the international community must act immediately and effectively to stop the illegal and provocative Israeli measures that undermine the two-state solution and threaten to explode the situation in the occupied Palestine.
In meetings held with 17 foreign ministers and officials participating in the MSC, Safadi underlined that these measures, which include settlements, house demolitions, displacing Palestinians from their homes, and attempts to change the historical and legal status of Islamic and Christian holy sites in the occupied Jerusalem, and economic restrictions against the Palestinian people, undermine the two-state solution, lead to losing confidence in the feasibility of the peace process, and push for an outbreak of violence, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which coincides this year with Christian and Jewish religious holidays.
Safadi said that the just, lasting and comprehensive peace, for which the Kingdom and all Arab countries are working, is a strategic choice, and a necessity for regional and international security and stability and it won’t be achieved without establishing an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital on the pre-June 4, 1967, to live in peace and security alongside Israel.
The foreign minister and his counterparts discussed steps that must be taken and the Kingdom’s efforts in cooperation with the Arab countries and the international community to stop the deterioration in the occupied Palestinian territories and to find a political horizon to return to serious and effective negotiations and reach the two-state solution, which is the only way to end the conflict and achieve security, stability and peace.
Safadi said it’s impossible to accept the current situation in Syria, according to the crisis management approach. He called for intensifying efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis that guarantees Syria’s unity and cohesion, restores its security, stability and role, meets the aspirations of the Syrian people, rids it of terrorism, leads to the exit of foreign forces from it and creates conditions for the voluntary return of refugees.
He also called for delivering relief and humanitarian aid to all the Syrian people who were affected by the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey, and supporting the two countries in responding to the consequences of this disaster.
Safadi warned of the difficult humanitarian and social repercussions of the decline in international support for refugees, for whom providing a decent and dignified life constitutes an international responsibility that should not be borne by host countries alone.
In his meetings with his counterparts, Safadi also discussed bilateral relations, and ways to develop them, especially in economic, investment fields, security and defense fields.
Safadi also briefed his counterparts on the political, economic and administrative reform and modernization programs and the steps Jordan has taken to improve economic performance and deal with the repercussions of regional crises.
The foreign minister met wit Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Michael Martin, Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, Sweden Foreign Minister Tobias Billstr?m, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Union European and Spanish Cooperation Jose Manuel Albares, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, Finnish Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto, Estonia Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and and State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Niels Annen.
Safadi also met with Democratic Senator, member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the Appropriations Committee in the US Senate, Chris Van Hollen, President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs, Jared Cohen, CEO of American Jewish Committee (AJC), Theodore Eliot Deutch, and a delegation from The Elders group, which included former Colombian President Juan Santos, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland and former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia.
The foreign minister will continue his meetings on the sidelines of the MSC on Sunday, and will participate in a dialogue session on the Middle East, in which the Norwegian Foreign Minister and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will also participate and will be moderated by the International Affairs Director of the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Safadi is scheduled to hold talks Saturday evening with the President of Iraq Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, focusing on increasing cooperation in various fields.
Source: Jordan News Agency