Arab ministers meet supports two-state solution

Arab foreign ministers were meeting in Amman on Saturday to voice their support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process based on a two-state solution.

"The meeting aims to reaffirm the Arab world's commitment to the Arab peace initiative, the option of peace and the solution of two states, Palestine and Israel," Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told AFP.

A Saudi-inspired Arab peace plan, which has been on the table since 2002, offers Israel full normalisation of ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab land.

Foreign ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa are in Amman for the talks and will also meet Jordan's King Abdullah II.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem was expected in Amman but Judeh said he had another previously-scheduled trip.

Judeh said King Abdullah would convey the views of the Arab ministers when he meets US President Barack Obama in Washington, without giving a date for the trip.

The concept of a two-state solution which would see a viable Palestinian state existing in peace alongside a secure Israel is central to Obama's Middle East policy.

But it is unpopular within the government of Israel's hawkish new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's (AFP).

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