Israeli, Jordanian foreign ministers meet, with plenty of issues on their agenda
Israel's normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and Israel’s apparent rapprochement with Saudi Arabia worry Jordan, especially when it comes to its special custodian status in Jerusalem.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met Dec. 3 with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi at the Allenby Bridge border crossing.
The Jordanians are said to have asked for the meeting in order to discuss some practical matters. The list of issues that came up in the meeting was quite long. A statement issued by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said the two men talked about "a number of pending concerns, including water, lifting restrictions on Jordanian exports to the West Bank, Jordanian provision of additional electricity to the Palestinian Authority and organizing movement through border crossings in light of their closure due to the coronavirus pandemic."
