JORDAN: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL HOLDS TALKS WITH KING ABULLAH OF JORDAN
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223049
JORDAN: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL HOLDS TALKS WITH KING ABULLAH OF JORDAN
- Title: JORDAN: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL HOLDS TALKS WITH KING ABULLAH OF JORDAN
- Date: 25th February 2001
- Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (FEBRUARY 25, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV PLANE TAXIING ON RUNWAY 0.05 2. SLV UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL WALKS DOWN STEPS ON PLANE, GREETS DIGNITARIES, WALKS TO CAR 0.45 3. CU PULL OUT SLV POWELL IN CAR, CONVOY DRIVE AWAY 0.56 4. SV EXTERIOR RAGHDAN PALACE 0.59 5. SLV CARS ARRIVE 1.03 6. SV POWELL LEAVES CAR AND EMBRACES JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH 1.08 7. SV POWELL SHAKES HANDS WITH JORDANIAN DIGNITARIES 1.16 (MUTE) 8. LV/SV POWELL, KING ABDULLAH AND DIGNITARIES SEATED AT TABLE (6 SHOTS) 1.46 9. MCU OF ABDULLAH 1.48 10. SV OFFICIALS SEATED AT TABLE 1.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: AMMAN, JORDAN
- Country: Jordan
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- Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in
Jordan and held talks with King Abdullah of Jordan on Sunday
(February 25) on Iraq and the impact of Israeli-Palestinian
violence on stability in the region, officials said.
Abdullah greeted Powell warmly at the steps of Raghdan
Palace when he arrived from Israel on the first visit by a
senior official of U.S. President George W. Bush's
adminstration, the officials said.
Powell, who pledged Washington would continue to play a
leadership role in seeking peace under President George W.
Bush, was expected to seek Jordan's help in tightening border
controls with neighbouring Iraq, its main trading partner and
sole energy supplier.
But sympathy with Iraq is widespread among Jordanians
outraged by a perceived Western bias against Arabs in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jordan hosts over 40 percent of the more than 3.8 million
Palestinians registered as refugees. Abdullah has warned of
the consequences to regional stability of escalating the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Most of Jordan's five million citizens are of Palestinian
origin, they or their parents having fled here in the fighting
that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.
Earlier Powell had urged Israelis and Palestinians to end
violence that has taken more than 400 lives in five months,
most of them Palestinian.
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