Tag Archives: Jordan

Ahram Online Jordanian former Crown Prince Hamzah Ibn Al-Husain, who was implicated in a coup plot against his half-brother King Abdullah II last year, gave up his royal title on Sunday. Hamzah, in a statement posted on Twitter, announced he was “renouncing the title of prince”, a month after a …

Egypt Today The 30th Egyptian-Jordanian Joint Supreme Committee signed several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), cooperation protocols and executive programs, at a meeting in Cairo on Monday. The committee signed two MoUs related to logistic zones and agricultural quarantine, in addition to a media cooperation protocol. An executive program was signed …

Egypt Today “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Egypt on Sunday, to participate in the he fourth annual World Youth Forum (WYF) due to kick off on Monday”, a statement by the Palestinian embassy in Egypt read. The Palestinian President and accompanying delegation were received by Egyptian Minister of Environment …

Egypt Today Foreign Ministers and heads of Intelligence services of Egypt, Jordan and Palestine discussed ways of enhancing relations and the peace process at a meeting in Cairo on Monday. “The officials probed efforts to consolidate Palestinian unity. They assessed Israel’s illegal measures against Palestinians in the occupied territories, which …

Ahram Online President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s Crown Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II voiced their full support for Iraqi anti-terrorism efforts, at a meeting in Cairo on Tuesday. “Sisi and Prince Al-Hussein reiterated their condemnation of the recent assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and affirmed their support …

Egypt Today Egyptian Minister of Culture, Inas Abdel Dayem and Jordan’s Minister of Culture, Haifa al-Najjar, signed an artistic and cultural cooperation agreement at the Royal Cultural Centre in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Tuesday. The agreement includes an executive program supporting and enhancing the distinguished bilateral relations between the …

Amr Kandil – Ahram Online Egyptian of Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry urged international and regional parties, on Thursday, to “fulfil their role in providing the proper climate to push the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the near future”. The remarks were made at a consultation session in Cairo with his Palestinian …

Ahram Online Energy Ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon announced an agreement to supply Lebanon with Egyptian natural gas to generate electricity. The announcement came at a joint press conference held in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday. The Ministers agreed to revive the Arab Gas Pipeline to transport Egyptian gas …

Ahram Online The Egyptian, Jordanian, and Palestinian heads of state held a trilateral summit in Cairo, Thursday, where they emphasised the importance of unifying all  efforts to revive the long-frozen peace process between Palestine and Israel. Earlier on Thursday, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi received Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian …

Egypt Today “Cairo will send Egyptian natural gas to Jordan, in order to produce extra quantities of electricity and add them to the grid linking Jordan with Lebanon via Syria”, a statement by the Lebanese Presidency revealed on Friday. According to the statement, “United States ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, …