Jordan – Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi confirmed that canceling the peace agreement between Jordan and Israel “will not serve Jordan or the Palestinians,” noting that it is a “source of strength” for the Kingdom.
Al-Safadi told the “Voice of the Kingdom” program yesterday, Sunday, that Jordan obtained “an agreement that fulfilled all our rights and served our interests, and canceling it will not serve Jordan and will not serve the Palestinians. If we thought for a moment that canceling the agreement would serve Jordan and the Palestinians, we would not hesitate to do so.”
He added: “We believe that canceling the peace agreement does not serve Jordan or serve Palestine, and vice versa, it will be harmful to Jordan and harmful to Palestine, and will greatly hinder our ability to continue to play the basic and main role in supporting the Palestinian people.”
He pointed out that the peace agreement “is a source of strength for us and enables us to continue our role in supporting the Palestinian people and protecting our interests,” recalling that “the Kingdom signed the peace agreement after the Palestinians signed the Oslo Accords with Israel, when the entire Arab world was in negotiations in order to achieve comprehensive peace.” And permanent.”
In response to a question to Al-Safadi about demands to cancel the peace agreement with Israel, he said: “We respect Jordanian public opinion.”
He continued, “The agreement at that time (in 1994, the date of signing the agreement) protected our interests, regained our occupied lands, and established Jordan’s special role in managing the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. Were it not for this role, there would have been a vacuum that Israel exploited to impose its sovereignty and management over the holy sites, and it would not have given it to the Palestinians.”
He added: “Jordan will do whatever it believes will contribute to increasing our ability to support the Palestinian people, and we have taken many steps that have proven this historically.”
Al-Safadi explained, “In the context of the tense situation that Israel is making worse, in the context of the catastrophe that Israel is imposing on Gaza, and in the context of the Israeli aggression against Gaza and the West Bank, we previously said in this circumstance that the agreement is a document filled with dust.”
He stressed that “Jordan does not impose normalization on any Jordanian citizen.”
But he explained that “Israeli extremists, including ministers in the Israeli government, want to cancel the peace agreement, which will return us to square one and return us to the issue of borders and conflict and make us lose the ability to do our part.”
The Jordanian Foreign Minister said: “The focus will become that Jordan withdrew from the peace agreement instead of focusing on Israeli violations.”
The Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty, or what is referred to as the “Wadi Araba” treaty, is a peace treaty signed between Jordan and Israel on the border separating the two countries and passing through Wadi Araba on October 26, 1994.
The treaty stipulated that its goal was to achieve a just and comprehensive peace between the two countries based on Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 within safe and recognized borders.
Source: “The Kingdom”
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2024-04-16 01:03:30