Amman- Jordan's King Abdullah II will visit Paris later this week for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the latest Middle East developments, Prime Minister Nader Dahabi said Monday.
"Jordan looks with special interest and appreciation to France's effective role in reactivating the peace negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides," Dahabi told a delegation representing the Jordanian-French Parliamentary Friendship Society.
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday urged the world's major powers to put pressure on Israel to halt its excavations at the Magharebah Gate in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state captured from Jordan in the 1967 war.
Foreign Minister Salah Bashir met at his office for this purpose with ambassadors of the UN Security Council's five permanent member states, European Union countries and Islamic states accredited to Jordan, according to an official statement.
Amman - Arab stock markets lost further ground this week as the continuation of the dispute over the Iranian nuclear file and the lack of factors moving the markets negatively influenced decisions of investors, financial analysts said Friday.
However, the drastic decline in stock prices over the past few weeks prompted a buying wave in the Kuwaiti and United Arab Emirates stock exchanges that gave the impression stock prices could be bottoming out, they added.
Amman - Investment in Jordan's telecommunication sector reached 1 billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission head Ahmad Hiyasat said Thursday.
A number of new laws and regulations had helped boost competitiveness in Jordan's telecommunications sector, he told a foreign investment conference in Amman.
The government had also withdrawn from the sector and opened it to foreign investors - the first Arab country to do so, Hiyasat said.
Amman - Jordan's telecommunication investments reached one billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, the head of the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Ahmad Hiyasat, said Thursday.
Speaking at a foreign investment conference currently in process in Amman, Hiyasat said a number of laws and regulatory decisions had "helped to boost the competitiveness of the country's telecommunications sector."
Amman- Jordan's King Abdullah II will visit Paris later this week for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the latest Middle East developments, Prime Minister Nader Dahabi said Monday.
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday urged the world's major powers to put pressure on Israel to halt its excavations at the Magharebah Gate in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state captured from Jordan in the 1967 war.
Amman - Arab stock markets lost further ground this week as the continuation of the dispute over the Iranian nuclear file and the lack of factors moving the markets negatively influenced decisions of investors, financial analysts said Friday.
Amman - Investment in Jordan's telecommunication sector reached 1 billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission head Ahmad Hiyasat said Thursday.
Amman - Jordan's telecommunication investments reached one billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, the head of the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Ahmad Hiyasat, said Thursday.
