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S. Arabia unlikely to sit with Israel

Baker talks peace process with Hussein
AQABA (Jordan). Apr 20: US Secretary of State James Baker held talks Saturday with Jordan's king Hussein tn an effort to develop a Middle East peace process, then flew on to I Cairo, reports AP.
j Baker described the meet
I ing In Jordan's Red Sea port as 1 "very productive and useful" but did not elaborate.
Also attending the talks were Hussein's younger brother. Prince Hassan, as well as Jordan's Prime Minister Mudar Badran. Foreign Minister Taher Masri and other close aides to the monarch.
Baker's stopover here came after a US official said Saudi
I Arabia and other Gulf Arab ' states should be excluded from any negotiations following the secretary's meeting tn Jerusalem with Israeli and Palestinian officials.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also told reporters that Baker had made little headway during his Middle East trip tn setting up peace negotiations.
The Saudis had been expected to play an enhanced rote In the region following their prominent rote In the Gulf War
"It's not because Saudi Arabia to refusing anything." Baker explained
1 think there to a feeling on the part of the sometimes-called frontline states neighboring Israel that the Issues in dispute are issues that affect Israel and those countries and issues that affect Israel and Palestinians." said Baker
Tf you bring other Arab state# to the table at the same time where do you draw the Une," the secretary said
Israel and its Arab neighbours agree neither on ar rangements for a peace conference nor on who would represent the Palestinians, the of ficial said.
But Baker, before leaving Jerusalem to see Hussein, said. "We are going to keep plugging aww"
Baker met with three Palestinian leaders before leaving the Israeli capital. They urged him to stop Jewish set dement in the occupied territories and to reject " unacceptable conditions" Israel lias set for peace talks.
Baker's stop at this Jordanian city Is his first in the Arab world on the current trip and Hussein's first direct involvement in the peace process.
The king condemned the war by the United States and its allies against Iraq as a conflict against all Muslims. Several years ago. he said he was dropping out of the search for a peace settlement because the United States was hopelessly one-sided In favour of Israel.
This Is Baker's third Mideast trip since March 11. On his trip to the area last week, he won agreement from Israel and the Arabs to hold peace talks. Hl# task this time is to set them up. but he is not doing well so far.
"As we get closer, the decisions get tougher." said the official "I think that's what you are seeing These are tough calls and tough decisions. "However, the official added "No one has definitely said they would not attend a peace conference."
Asked what Baker had accomplished he cited an un derstanding by Israel and the Arabs that peace talks would be based on U.N. Security Council resolutions approved after the 1967 and 1973 Mideast wars.
They call for Israel to withdraw from territory the Arabs lost tn 1967 and security for all nations tn the region.
While Baker met with Hussein, about 150 Islamic students from Jordan University demonstrated in Amman, the capital of the Arab kingdom
Baker, go home," some of the students chanted
The Palestine Liberation Organisation-approved Palestinian delegation that met with Baker earlier was headed by Faisal Husselnl. a leading PLO supporter from Jerusalem.
The Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip was represented by Dr Zakaria al-Agha. who heads the physicians' association there, and the occupied West Bank was represented by Hanan Ashrawl. an English professor
They called for a United Nations-sponsored international conference to achieve peace in the Middle East and said European participation "during the whole course of the process is essential."
Reuter reports Saudi Arabia, contrary to earlier expectations. is unlikely to attend at least the opening session of a regional Middle East peace conference with Israel, a US official said today.