{"id":3006,"date":"2019-04-12T05:34:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2019-04-12T05:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:34:44","slug":"jordan-to-reject-any-proposal-without-independent-palestinian-state-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Jordan to reject any proposal without independent Palestinian state \u2014 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AMMAN \u2014 Jordan will reject any proposed settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that does not guarantee the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said on Tuesday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The premier noted during a press conference on Tuesday that Jordan&#8217;s position on the long-running Palestinian-Israeli conflict rests on two irreversible constants; the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and the Hashemite Custodianship over Jerusalem&#8217;s Islamic and Christian holy sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThese are the unshakable foundations of Jordan\u2019s position on Palestine and the non-negotiable red lines,\u201d Razzaz said in response to a question on how Jordan would respond to the so-called deal of the century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Regarding calls to scrap a gas deal between Jordan\u2019s National Electric Power Company and Israel, Razzaz said that his government was not the one who signed the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">He added that the decision to keep or cancel the deal will be taken in accordance with Jordan\u2019s higher interests.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere is definitely a penalty clause in the deal,\u201d the premier told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Razzaz said that the deal is currently being reviewed by the Constitutional Court.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The Lower House has recently declared its \u201cutter rejection\u201d of the gas deal, requesting that the agreement be \u201ccancelled at any cost\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The government has decided to refer the gas deal with Israel to the Constitutional Court for interpretation of Article 33 of the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Paragraph B of the said article reads: \u201cTreaties and agreements which involve financial commitments to the Treasury or affect the public or private rights of Jordanians shall not be valid unless approved by the National Assembly. In no circumstances shall any secret terms contained in any treaty or agreement be contrary to their overt terms\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jordantimes.com\/news\/local\/jordan-reject-any-proposal-without-independent-palestinian-state-%E2%80%94-pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN \u2014 Jordan will reject any proposed settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that does not guarantee the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said on Tuesday.\u00a0 The premier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,48,57,90,96,107,113,137,139,160,174,183,184,201,202,209,230,232,233,244,246,249,256,267,277,279,288],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aramco","tag-athens","tag-baroudi","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-embargo","tag-energy-peace","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-international-maritime-disputes","tag-lebanon","tag-maritime-boundaries-east-mediterranean","tag-maritime-disputes","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-poverty-alleviation","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-straddling-hydrocarbons-reserves","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}