Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop settlement building in the West Bank to ensure the continuation of direct talks with the Palestinians, dpa reported.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided earlier this week to stop the direct negotiations with Israel after the Israeli government failed to extend the moratorium on settlement building that expired on September 26.
King Abdullah's view was made in a telephone conversation between the monarch and Netanyahu.
The Jordanian head of state warned that "all peoples of the region will pay the price of the failure to achieve peace, the pre-requisite of which will be the creation of a Palestinian state that lives in peace with Israel in accordance with the two-state vision".