Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat arrived in Jordan on Sunday to discuss US peace proposals with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah Khatib, Jordanian officials said.
Before leaving for Amman, Erakat told the official Jordanian news agency Petra that "the Palestinian Authority will not give a response to the American proposals without the clarifications it has asked" Washington to provide.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has sent a letter to US President Bill Clinton asking for more detail on his peace plan, whose major points include Palestinian sovereignty over a disputed Jerusalem holy site and a renunciation of Palestinian refugees' right of return.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has conditionally accepted the plan, although he has balked at full Palestinian sovereignty over the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Jordan, where more than half of the population is of Palestinian descent, in 1994 became the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
The kingdom regularly consults with the Palestinian Authority, and King Abdullah II has reportedly urged the Palestinians to be open to the Clinton plan -- AMMAN (AFP)
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