Almotamar.net Google News - Amman, May 11 - Jordan's King Abdullah II is to visit the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to revive stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, the royal court announced Friday.
'The monarch will discuss with Abbas Arab and international efforts being exerted with the avowed aim of bringing the Palestinian and Israeli parties back to the negotiating table in accordance with the Arab peace initiative and the two-state version,' a royal spokesman said.
King Abdullah's trip to the Palestinian territories comes on the heels of a meeting in Cairo on Thursday that grouped the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts Abdul Ilah Khatib and Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
Khatib and Aboul Gheit were delegated by the Arab League to meet with Livni to relay to her the text of the Arab Peace Initiative that was readopted by Arab leaders at their summit in Riyadh at the end of March.
Jordan and Egypt are the two only Arab countries that so far have concluded official peace treaties with the Jewish state.
Livni considered the Cairo meeting a 'historic' development representing Israel's first contact with the Arab League but a league spokesman downplayed the meeting.
The Arab peace plan offers to extend recognition to Israel by all Arab countries on condition that it pulls out of all Arab areas it occupied in the 1967, including East Jerusalem, and that an acceptable solution is found for the Palestinian refugee problem.