By DPA
Amman : Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit are to visit Israel Wednesday to discuss re-launching the Arab-Israeli peace process in accordance with the Arab peace initiative, Jordan's ambassador to Israel Ali al-Ayed was quoted Friday as saying.
The two Arab ministers, acting as emissaries of the Arab League, will "relay the Arab peace plan to the Israeli government", al-Ayed was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.
The two ministers were originally scheduled to visit Israel July 12, but the trip was postponed.
The Arab foreign ministers, who met in Cairo in April, set up a working group comprising Jordan and Egypt to conduct talks with Israel on resuming the peace process in accordance with the Arab peace initiative that was first adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut in 2002.
The latest Arab summit conference, which met in Riyadh at the end of March, readopted the document, which envisaged extending recognition to Israel by all Arab states after it pulled out from all Arab areas it occupied during the 1967 six-day war, including East Jerusalem.
The blueprint also provides for working out an "acceptable solution" to the problem of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes upon Israel's foundation in 1948.
The foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, the only two Arab countries to conclude official peace treaties with the Jewish state so far, are scheduled to meet the Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehuld Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defence Minister Ehud Barak, al-Ayed said.
Meetings are also scheduled between the two Arab foreign ministers and Speaker of the Knesset Dalia Itzik, members of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee as well as leaders of Israeli public opinion, he added.
Amman, July 20 (DPA) Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit are to visit Israel Wednesday to discuss re-launching the Arab-Israeli peace process in accordance with the Arab peace initiative, Jordan's ambassador to Israel Ali al-Ayed was quoted Friday as saying.
The two Arab ministers, acting as emissaries of the Arab League, will "relay the Arab peace plan to the Israeli government", al-Ayed was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.
The two ministers were originally scheduled to visit Israel July 12, but the trip was postponed.
The Arab foreign ministers, who met in Cairo in April, set up a working group comprising Jordan and Egypt to conduct talks with Israel on resuming the peace process in accordance with the Arab peace initiative that was first adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut in 2002.
The latest Arab summit conference, which met in Riyadh at the end of March, readopted the document, which envisaged extending recognition to Israel by all Arab states after it pulled out from all Arab areas it occupied during the 1967 six-day war, including East Jerusalem.
The blueprint also provides for working out an "acceptable solution" to the problem of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes upon Israel's foundation in 1948.
The foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, the only two Arab countries to conclude official peace treaties with the Jewish state so far, are scheduled to meet the Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehuld Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defence Minister Ehud Barak, al-Ayed said.
Meetings are also scheduled between the two Arab foreign ministers and Speaker of the Knesset Dalia Itzik, members of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee as well as leaders of Israeli public opinion, he added.