Jordan's King Abdulllah receives U.S. Secretary of State Kerry
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2013-07-17
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STORY: U.S Secretary of State John Kerry met with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman on Wednesday as part of a round of discussions Kerry held in Jordan in his push to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and address the crisis in Syria.
Meeting Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Kerry raised the possibility of visiting a refugee camp housing some of the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Jordan to escape Syria's civil war.
Kerry, on his sixth visit to the region since he took office on February 1, was due to have dinner with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he tries to nudge the Palestinians and Israelis toward reviving talks that collapsed nearly three years ago.
After a round of shuttle diplomacy between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of June, Kerry said that "with a little more work, the start of final status negotiations could be within reach".
But there is deep skepticism amo
STORY: U.S Secretary of State John Kerry met with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman on Wednesday as part of a round of discussions Kerry held in Jordan in his push to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and address the crisis in Syria.
Meeting Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Kerry raised the possibility of visiting a refugee camp housing some of the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Jordan to escape Syria's civil war.
Kerry, on his sixth visit to the region since he took office on February 1, was due to have dinner with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he tries to nudge the Palestinians and Israelis toward reviving talks that collapsed nearly three years ago.
After a round of shuttle diplomacy between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of June, Kerry said that "with a little more work, the start of final status negotiations could be within reach".
But there is deep skepticism amo
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