By Hani Hazaimeh

AMMAN – Jordan is committed to the Arab consensus supporting the Palestinian leadership’s pursuit of recognition of a state by the UN General Assembly if Israel continues to reject relevant international resolutions, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh said on Thursday.

Judeh reaffirmed Jordan’s continued support for the Palestinians in their efforts to establish their own independent state on the national Palestinian soil with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the basis of the two-state solution.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian leadership said that Jordan and Palestine are reading on the same page regarding the issue and coordination between the two sides is ongoing.

For Jordan, this issue represents a higher national interest related to final status resolution, Judeh said, confirming that

There are ongoing coordination between Jordan and the Palestinian Authority on all bilateral levels, and within the framework of Arab consensus.

Jordan and the Palestinian leadership believe the optimal means to achieve this goal is through direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, within a specific time frame and in accordance with international resolutions, and the Arab Peace Initiative, in particular, he added.

Palestinian villagers and firefighters try to extinguish a fire they say was started by Jewish settlers in a field in the West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus, on Thursday (Reuters photo by Abed Omar Qusini)