AMMAN, Aug 25 (AFP) - Ties between Amman and the Palestinian Authority are bound by common interests and crisis-free, Jordan's Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher and his Palestinian counterpart Nabil Shaath insisted Wednesday.
Their remarks appeared to put an end to tension that arose earlier this month after Jordan's King Abullah II said more clarity was needed from the Palestinian leadership over its demands in the peace proces with Israel.
"There is no crisis between Jordan and Palestine. We have common interests and therefore honesty and advice are needed when we feel this is in our common interest," Moasher told reporters after the talks.
"Advice does not mean, God forbid, that there is a desire to cut these relations. On the contrary. We want more coordination and more consultations because we have common interests and they are an end to Israeli occupation," he added.
Shaath agreed and said Jordan and the Palestinians had a "strategic alliance".
"That is why it is necessary to overcome any problems that may arise. We meet and we solve them," he said.
Last week Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei met Jordanian counterpart Faisal al-Fayez in Amman and called for "transparent" ties with Amman.
Qorei had been angered by the remarks made by King Abdullah in a television interview on August 3 in which the monarch said the floundering Middle East peace roadmap provided an opportunity that the Palestinians needed to seize if they were to obtain their promised state.
Shaath spend a few hours in Amman on his way from the West Bank to Rome.