ISRAEL: THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU HOLDS MEETING WITH JORDAN'S PRIME MINISTER

Record ID: 399855

  • Title: ISRAEL: THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU HOLDS MEETING WITH JORDAN'S PRIME MINISTER
  • Date: 16th July 1996
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (JULY 16, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV/MCU JORDANIAN PRIME MINISTER ABDUL-KARIM AL-KABARITI AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IN MEETING (3 SHOTS) 0.22 2. SV NETANYAHY AND ABDUL-KARIM AL-KABARITI AT PRESS CONFERENCE 0.25 3. MCU NETANYAHU SAYING HE WANTS TO CONTINUE THE PEACE PROCESS AND OPEN NEGOTIA
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1996 13:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA464YG7H57FS86BQ4GKCGPTX7C
  • Story Text: INTRO: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held a surprise meeting with Jordan's Prime Minister, his first with an Arab leader since his election in May. But Palestinian officials say relations between Israel and the PLO have not been positive.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul-Karim al-Kabariti said on Tuesday (July 16) that he had travelled to Israel after meeting Egypt's president and Syria's foreign minister in Cairo because of concern about the future of peacemaking.

    Netanyahu makes his first trip as prime minister to an Arab state on Thursday when he meets Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.

    After meeting Kabariti, Netanyahu told a joint news conference: "We both recognise the central importance of Egypt as the cornerstone for the Arab-Israeli peace and President Mubarak's important role, leading role, in not only meeting the Arab world but also in seeking to cement and broaden the circle of peace." In Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday night after meeting a Netanyahu envoy that the new atmosphere with Israel had "not been positive".

    But on Wednesday, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy told Israeli Radio that he might meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat within a few days. This would be the first meeting between Arafat and an Israeli cabinet member in Netanyahu's new government.

    Israel signed a peace deal with Arafat's PLO in 1993 after decades of enmity but the hardline Netanyahu, who toppled Shimon Peres's left-centre government in May, opposed the agreement and has so far refused to meet the Palestinian leader.

    Arab states and the Palestinians have been outraged by Netanyahu's rejection of the principle of trading occupied Arab land for peace, the basis of nearly five years of peace talks.


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