Senior officials from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority held talks Wednesday in Japan in a bid to lay the groundwork for peace by improving the Palestinian economy.
Japan, which is seeking a greater role in the Middle East, hopes the talks will lead to a deal on its signature project in the region – starting an agro-industrial park in the West Bank.
The proposed project near Jericho ‘demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between prosperity and ensuring a lasting peace of all of our region,’ the Jordanian foreign minister, Salah Bashir, told reporters at the talks.
But he said the best way to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict was to deliver on a two-state solution endorsed by a summit last November in Annapolis, near Washington.
‘The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the core issue of the Middle East. If we solve that we have better ability to address the other political challenges but also the prosperity and economic challenges,’ Bashir said.
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