Amman - Seven Arab foreign ministers and the Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa are to meet in Amman on Saturday to discuss the future Arab strategy for peace negotiations with Israel, officials said Friday. The meeting has added significance as it falls just ahead of a planned trip to Washington by Jordan's King Abdullah II, who is expected to relay the Arab vision on the peace process with Israel to the US President Barack Obama.

The foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Syria will be among those meeting in the Jordanian capital, according to reliable sources in Amman.

The regular Arab summit conference, which last convened in Doha at the end of March, will attempt to muster support for the Arab peace initiative in the wake of the arrival of the right-wing coalition government in Israel led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu ran on a platform of not recognising the two-state solution endorsed by the US government, but offering "economic peace" to the Palestinians.

The Arab blueprint offers to extend recognition to Israel by all Arab states if it quits all territories occupied in the 1967 Six-Day war, including East Jerusalem.

No date has been so far declared for the monarch's Washington trip.

Moderate Arab countries have been encouraged by Obama's remarks in Turkey this week in support of the two-state solution and his overtures towards the Islamic world.

During a visit to Jordan on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband strongly supported Palestinian statehood, saying Jerusalem should be the capital of both the Palestinians and Israel.(dpa)