AMMAN —
Senate President
Faisal Al-Fayez said that Jordan is actively pursuing a
comprehensive economic and political reform agenda, emphasizing that the
reforms are an irreversible goal despite challenges, according to the Jordan
News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
Fayez’s remarks
came as he received a delegation from the
National Democratic Institute, an
American non-profit pro-democracy organization, led by the Institute’s regional
director, Leslie Campbell.
The political
development model that Jordan is pursuing, he maintained, is a pluralistic state
of law that encourages public participation, upholds human rights, safeguards
fundamental liberties, and strengthens the concepts of accountability and
justice.
Jordan is a state
that believes in peace and the values of love and justice, he said. He added
that Jordan also refuses to meddle in the affairs of others, and believes in
the importance of respecting states’ sovereignty and the right of their people
to self-determination.
Addressing
regional issues, Fayez referred to the Syrian crisis as a catastrophe that the
UN was unable to resolve, and said that the Arab nation has turned into an
arena for international and regional actors to settle scores.
He said that
terrorist and extremist groups are regaining a foothold in Syria, and that
transnational drug trafficking networks are flourishing there.
Fayez said that
the Palestinian people are currently under the longest occupation in human
history and that attempts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict have failed as a
result of Israeli intransigence and the extreme right’s hold on the government.
He asserted that
His Majesty King Abdullah consistently maintains that only the two-state solution
can resolve the Palestinian conflict, and that other proposals that do not give
the Palestinian people access to a sovereign state on pre-June 4, 1967 borders,
with East Jerusalem as its capital, are “nihilistic” and will only inflame
regional conflict and violence.
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