Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi spoke Wednesday with UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov and said that the Israeli plan to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley must be shelved on order to "protect regional peace."
Safadi urged Mladenov to act to "prevent the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands" and stressed the need to "create a new horizon for the resolution of the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict based on the two-state solution."
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According to a Jordanian Foreign Ministry statement, Safadi briefed the UN envoy on Amman's moves to formulate a clear, practical, international stand as part of the efforts to prevent Israel's move, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would pursue as early as July.
Safadi urged the international community to unite to halt the move and warned Mladenov of the "disastrous consequences" any annexation decision will have on regional stability and security.
Applying Among other things, he was quoted as saying that the decision "will kill the two-state solution, fuel the [regional] conflict and make the one-state option a fait accompli.
"The world will not be able to remain silent in the face of institutionalized apartheid and racial discrimination," he stated.
However, a senior Jordanian official told Israel Hayom that "Jordan will continue to voice its official stance against the annexation plan, mainly through public statements made by the prime minister and foreign minister, but the king will allow the move to take place with as long as Jordanian interests are maintained."
Saudi, Egyptian, UAE and Jordanian officials told Israel Hayom Tuesday that while the official pan-Arab position opposes any move that allegedly infringes on Palestinian interests, the moderate Arab countries "will not jeopardize their relationship with the Trump administration for the Palestinians," and behind the scenes, the move is not being challenged as forcibly as the Palestinians might hope.
Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat warned Wednesday that "the next few weeks will determine whether the next decades will be ones of peace and coexistence or of violence and war."
