The battle against the Islamic State is "a long-term and extremely complex challenge" but would be "successful," the president told reporters after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House.
He praised Jordan as "an important partner," as the kingdom is one of the five Arab countries that join US-led air strikes on the Islamic State targets inside Syria.
Obama said the United States would increase aid to support Jordan's reform efforts.
On the nuclear talks with Iran, he said Washington "would prefer no deal to a bad deal."
Iran and the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia plus Germany missed the Nov. 24 deadline for clinching a comprehensive deal over Tehran's nuclear program due to lingering differences on some core issues, but agreed to extend their talks for another seven months.
"Whether Iran seizes this opportunity or not is something we have not yet been able to determine, but we will keep on trying over the next several months," Obama said.
He said Washington and Amman will also work together for "a Palestinian state."
For his part, Abdullah II said his country has "a long-term commitment to bring a long-term solution to the region" and that it is a "generational fight" against extremism all over the world.
Source: Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
6/12/14
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Remarks by President Obama and His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan after Bilateral Meeting....
ReplyDeleteThe White House, Office of the Press Secretary:
PRESIDENT OBAMA:Well, it's a great pleasure once again to welcome my friend, His Majesty King Abdullah, and the delegation from Jordan here to the Oval Office.
Jordan is one of our most effective and capable and steadfast partners in not only the Middle East, but around the world.And my personal friendship with His Majesty is something that I greatly appreciate.I always enjoy talking to him both for his honesty and his good counsel.
We had an extensive discussion about some of the challenges that we face in the region.At the top of the list, obviously, was our efforts to debilitate and ultimately destroy ISIL both in Iraq and in Syria.Jordan has been a rock-solid partner in that coalition to defeat ISIL.And the Jordanian military has been working side by side with U.S. and other militaries from around the world in making slow, but steady progress, providing assistance to Baghdad, providing assistance to the moderate opposition inside of Syria, and to begin rolling back some of the gains that ISIL has made.
We recognize it's a long-term and extremely complex challenge, but it's one that we feel optimistic we’ll be able to succeed at.And I stressed my strong gratitude to His Majesty for all the efforts that his men and women in uniform have made.
We also had a chance to talk about the fact that this is not just a military campaign; this is also diplomatic and a social and political effort, that it's a matter of winning over hearts and minds and isolating the extremists in the region.And I think Jordan is an important leader in that.His Majesty shared with me some of the ideas about organizing within Islam to make sure that the overwhelming majority of peace-loving Muslims are able to, within their region and within their own communities, step by step isolate and ultimately eradicate this strain that has done so much damage in the region.
We had a chance to discuss some of the other regional issues that are of great importance.We share a concern about continuing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, and Jordan has been a strong partner in working with us to try to broker a genuine two-state solution and peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians......................http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/05/remarks-president-obama-and-his-majesty-king-abdullah-jordan-after-bilat
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