- Title: JORDAN: EGYPT AND JORDAN CONDEMN PALESTINIAN SUICIDE ATTACK IN JERUSALEM
- Date: 29th January 2002
- Summary: (W6) AMMAN, JORDAN (JANUARY 27, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF NEWS CONFERENCE VENUE 0.05 2. MV AHMED MAHER, EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND MARWAN AL-MUASHAR, JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ENTER ROOM; MV MAHER AND MUASHAR SITTING; SCU MARWAN MUASHAR; SCU AHMED MAHER; MV MEDIA (4 SHOTS) 0.24 3. MV MAHER AND MUASHAR, ENTER ANOTHER ROOM AND SI
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- Location: AMMAN, JORDAN
- Country: Jordan
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- Story Text: Jordan and Egypt have condemned a Palestinian suicide
attack in Jerusalem but the two U.S. allies urged Washington
not to sever ties with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Speaking at a news conference in Amman on Sunday
(January 27, 2002) Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said the
attack, the latest in a wave of tit-for-tat
Israeli-Palestinian attacks, showed that negotiations were the
only way to end 16-months of a Palestinian revolt against
Israeli occupation.
"About the incident that occurred today in Jerusalem we
condemn all violence against civilians but what happened today
was evidence that the huge operation (against Palestinians)
doesn't give security (to the Israelis)."
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed one person and wounded
dozens of others in Jerusalem's main shopping street in the
third attack in an Israeli city centre in less than a week.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack and called
on the United States, which had just suspended a ceasefire
mission by its envoy Anthony Zinni, to send him back to the
region.
Echoing Maher's remarks, Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan
al-Muashar Jordan was against any attack that targeted
civilians.
"We don't think these attacks serve the Palestinian cause.
We don't think these attacks help to advance the peace
process. We have always been against them just as we are
equally against attacks by Israelis and targeted killings
policy that Israel also uses" he said.
Referring to calls by the Israeli government for
sanctions against Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Muashar
said that Arafat had been elected president of the Palestinian
authority by the Palestinians and as the Authority's
legitimate leader, should be dealt with accordingly.
Maher said he delivered a message from Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak to Jordan's King Abdullah on how to
break the cycle of violence.
King Abdullah, who later flew to Riyadh for talks with
Saudi Arabian leaders, is due to meet U.S. President George W.
Bush in Washington later this week.
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