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| | Khatib leaves for Germany to represent Jordan at Euro-Med conference |
 | | Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib left yesterday to head Jordan's delegation to the two-day conference, aimed to foster the spirit of the Barcelona process, launched in 1995, and strengthen political, economic, and cultural ties between Europe and its 12 Mediterranean partners. |
 | | According to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, Khatib will be flanked in Stuttgart by the Jordanian ambassadors to Germany, Hussein Hamami, and Belgium, Omaya Touqan. |
 | | The ministerial conference, which follows similar meetings in Malta in April 1997 and Palermo last June, is slated to table a draft Charter for Peace and Stability and maximise confidence-building measures among the EU and Mediterranean countries, in line with the guidelines set in Barcelona for the political and security basket of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. |
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