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World / Middle East

Arab leaders endorse two-state solution, say ready for reconciliation with Israel

Published: 29 Mar 2017 - 07:25 pm | Last Updated: 16 Nov 2021 - 08:42 am
A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C-L) meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) on the sidelines of the Arab League summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Swe

A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C-L) meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) on the sidelines of the Arab League summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Swe

Reuters

Dead Sea, Jordan: Arab leaders said on Wednesday at the end of a one-day summit in Amman that they would be ready to have a historic reconciliation with Israel in return for its withdrawal from land it occupied in the 1967 war.

A communique read by the secretary general of the Arab League said Arab states would back Palestinian-Israeli peace talks to end the decades-old conflict if it guaranteed the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. 

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Hugh Lawson)