His Majesty King Abdullah renewed the Kingdom's support for the Palestinians during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qureia on Friday.

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Adnan Badran, Royal Court Minister Marwan Muasher, Foreign Minister Farouq Qasrawi and several Palestinian ministers and officials participating at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

King Abdullah also met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa and discussed upgrading Arab League operations.

In another meeting on the sidelines of the forum, His Majesty and EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson discussed enhancing existing economic ties between the Kingdom and the EU, as well as mechanisms to activate the Jordanian-European Partnership Agreement.

King Abdullah also had a second meeting with Mandelson in the presence of Minister of Industry and Trade Sharif Zu'bi and Israeli Trade Minister Ehud Olmert. Discussions covered the Qualified Industrial Zones Agreement signed in Amman last December between Jordan and Israel, and between the two countries and the EU.

The King also met with several officials on the sidelines of the WEF, including Kuwaiti Minister of Trade Abdul Rahman Tawil, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, and Seif Al Islam Qaddafi, son of the Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi.

The Jordan Times