Amman - The deficit in Jordan's balance of trade grew by 37.9 per cen

Amman - Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi on Saturday headed to Paris to lead his country's delegation to the Euromed Union summit due to open there Sunday, an official statement said.

Dahabi will deputise for King Abdullah II, who is currently on a private visit to the United States.

The Jordanian premier will deliver a speech at the meeting that "underlines the importance of boosting ties between the European Union countries and Middle East and North African states with a view to working together to achieve peace and prosperity for their peoples," the statement said.

Amman - A senior Jordanian official on Tuesday conceded that there were "arr

Amman - Jordanian Interior Minister Eid al-Fayez and his Kuwaiti counterpart General Khalid al-Sabah on Tuesday discussed the prospects of boosting bilateral and Pan-Arab security cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and violence.

"The Interior Ministries in the two countries have achieved a big stride in bilateral cooperation particularly in the spheres of security, police, exchange of information and training and we look forward to further coordination" al-Fayez said.

Amman - Jordan has approached the Iraqi government with a proposal to swap "non-political" prisoners provided that they complete their jail terms in their home countries, Iraqi ambassador Saad Hayyani was quoted Thursday as saying.

"We will forward the suggestion to our government," Hayyani was quoted as saying by the Jordan Times.

He said that the Jordanian proposal excluded prisoners "implicated in terror and political wrongdoings".

"There are around 40-50 Iraqi prisoners in Jordan who might be included in the agreement once it put into effect," he added.

Hayyani said that once the two countries agreed on the proposal, a delegation from relevant Iraqi ministries would come to Jordan for further discussions on the mechanism of the prisoners swap.

Baghdad - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday that Jordanian King Abdullah II would visit Iraq soon in a sign of a diplomatic breakthrough between Iraq and Arab countries and the i