Jordan's King Abdullah II is to pay a rare visit to Ramallah on Monday for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Jordanian royal court announced Sunday, DPA reported.
"The visit takes place within the framework of Jordan's backing to the Palestinian Authority and people," a royal court statement said.
King Abdullah's trip to the West Bank also has the aim of pushing forward the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process "in the run-up for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders in accordance with the two-state vision," the statement said.
The Palestinian Authority withdrew from direct peace talks with Israel in September 2010, citing the failure of the Israeli government to extend a moratorium on the building of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which the Jewish state seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war.