Among the topics which the two leaders discussed were events in Syria and the ongoing peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
The US President said that he would will provide loan guarantees and renew the current aid package to Jordan.
Obama was in California to discuss next year's budget which includes funding for environmental research, in response to California's prolonged drought this year.
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/President-Obama-meets-King-Abdullah-in-California-discuss-peace-process-and-Syria-341490
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Obama tells Jordan’s king he will seek more humanitarian aid for Syria’s refugees...
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“We don’t expect to solve this anytime in the short term,” Obama said at a meeting here with King Abdullah II of Jordan. “So there are going to be some immediate steps we have to take to help the humanitarian situation there. And there will be some intermediate steps that we can take to apply more pressure to the Assad regime. And we’re going to be continuing to work with all the parties concerned to move forward on a diplomatic solution.”
Obama spoke hours after Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the president was soliciting new policy options from his advisers with regard to Syria. Talks being held in Geneva to resolve the conflict have stalled, while there’s growing concern that Syria is not fully following through on its promise to turn over its stockpiles of chemical weapons for destruction.
Neither Obama nor his aides described any new steps that might be taken, but officials warned that the worsening crisis will continue to have negative effects for people inside and outside of Syria.
“Every day that the conflict in Syria goes on brings with it new challenges for the region as a whole,” a senior administration official said on Friday. The official added that as long as the conflict continues, the humanitarian crisis would grow worse, as would “the growing extremism problem, the burdens that the crisis is imposing on neighboring countries.”...........http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-tells-jordans-king-he-will-seek-more-humanitarian-aid-for-syrias-refugees/2014/02/15/8f46867c-960b-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
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