Jordan's King Abdullah II is to meet Monday with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on his first visit to Ramallah in five years, a Palestinian official said.
Mohammed Shtayyeh, a top official in the Fatah party of Abbas, told AFP Saturday that the two leaders would discuss efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been at a standstill since 2014.
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It will be the first visit since December 2012 by Abdullah - whose country is custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and which has a 2004 peace treaty with Israel - to the Palestinian political capital in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Jordan intervened last month to help resolve a crisis over access to the ultra-sensitive Haram al-Sharif mosque compound in the Old City of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
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