U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner is visiting the Middle East this week to seek the support of the long-overdue Middle East peace plan, U.S. media reported Tuesday. Kushner is leading a U.S. delegation on a trip to several capitals in the region this week, seeking support for the Middle East peace plan, U.S. media Axios reported, citing a senior White House official. According to the report, Kushner arrived in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Tuesday morning. He was scheduled to visit Amman yesterday, meeting King Abdullah II of Jordan to discuss Jordanian participation in the U.S.-led conference next month in Bahrain, which is seen as the economic portion of the plan, according to the report. Kushner will also meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem today. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s envoy for international negotiations, and Brian Hook, U.S. State Department’s Iran envoy, were also joining Kushner on the trip, according to reports. The White House announced earlier this month that the United States would unveil the first part of its Middle East peace plan at an economic workshop in Bahrain from June 25 to 26, according to U.S media. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Sunday called on the world to boycott the economic workshop. PLO Executive Committee’s Secretary General Saeb Erekat said in a press statement that the Arab countries who agreed to join the workshop in Manama “have to reconsider their participation.” (Xinhua) |