AMMAN - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid a surprise visit to Jordan Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah II on ways to reactivate peace talks with the Palestinians, the royal court said.| Might as well go to Amman, he's sure not very useful at home. |
‘His majesty had talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who paid a two-hour visit to Jordan and the king also phoned Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas,’ the statement said. Olmert, it added, travelled to Jordan at the request of the king ‘as part of efforts he is undertaking to revive the peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis’.
The monarch in his telephone call updated Abbas on the talks and discussed ways to defuse tensions in the Palestinian territories. ‘The king briefed president Abbas on the nature of his talks with Olmert and they agreed to continue coordinating with the Palestinian national authority to discuss all the means that can reactivate the peace process,’ it said. ‘All options are open, including hosting a meeting in Amman between (Abbas) .. and Haniya to discuss possible means of defusing the political tension between Fatah and Hamas,’ the Jordanian monarch told Abbas.