Mubarak and Assad agreed to step up contacts at what they termed a “delicate stage” in the Middle East crisis

AMMAN, June 20 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher spelled out Wednesday, June 19, conditions for his country’s participation in any international conference on the Middle East, including an Israeli pullout from Palestinian-ruled land.

Speaking at the Wihdat Palestinian refugee camp in Amman late Wednesday, Moasher said a general framework and timetable must also be laid out and Syria and Lebanon should attend any future conference, the press reported Thursday.

“Emerging from the current deadlock must come through a final settlement that would include the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and a clear timetable,” Moasher said.

He stressed that a general framework for an international conference championed by the United States should be based on U.N. Security Council resolution 1397, the first to endorse the vision of a Palestinian state, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Earlier Wednesday Jordan and Egypt staunchly rejected U.S. ideas for a “provisional” Palestinian state that was expected to be included in a Middle East peace initiative announced by President George W. Bush.

The U.S. strategy would also include a call for a conference on the Middle East .

“We cannot understand how we can set up a provisional state. Any Palestinian state must have full sovereignty over Palestinian territory,” Moasher told a news conference Wednesday. Maher added: “Only Israeli occupation (of Arab land) must be provisional.”

Meanwhile, Egypt ’s President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad agreed Wednesday in Damascus to step up contacts at what they termed a “delicate stage” in the Middle East crisis, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.

The two leaders also discussed the results of Mubarak's visit to the United States on June 8 and the situation in the Arab world, it said.

Assad and Mubarak, who flew in from Amman and left for home after talks with the Syrian president, agreed to “intensify inter-Arab contacts during this delicate stage” in the Middle East crisis, SANA reported.

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