Laith Al-Jnaidi and Ahmed Asmar
04 February 2025•Update: 04 February 2025
AMMAN, Jordan
Jordan’s foreign minister said Tuesday that an Arab ministerial meeting held last week sent a message that Arabs are ready to work with the US to achieve peace in the Middle East based on the two-state solution.
"There are positive developments in the region that we need to build on,” Ayman Safadi told a joint press conference in Amman with his Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis.
He called the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza a priority to ensure that the ceasefire is maintained.
On Saturday, a six-way Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo rejected US President Donald Trump’s call for resettling Palestinians from Gaza and renewed calls for implementing a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Greek foreign minister, for his part, said that the Gaza ceasefire could be "a positive turning point towards permanent stability in the Middle East."
The first six-week phase of the ceasefire agreement took hold in Gaza on Jan. 19, halting Israel’s war that killed more than 47,500 people and left the enclave in ruins.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
