With regard to the targeted efforts to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis, Safadi said that after the Jeddah meeting and during the Amman meeting, “we agreed on a roadmap to gradually move towards resolving the Syrian crisis and addressing its consequences.” Safadi added, “We want to take practical steps towards addressing the consequences of this crisis, and to prepare for the meeting of the Arab Liaison Committee, which was approved by the Arab League, which we hope will convene next month, in order to produce practical outputs that contribute to addressing the consequences of the crisis.” Safadi said that the crisis, which stretched over 12 years and had significant consequences, would not be resolved overnight, “but we started a serious Arab track aimed at resolving the crisis,” and according to a step by step-based methodology and aligned with Resolution 2254 so that there is a practical move towards a solution. Safadi said that the Kingdom is one of those most affected by the Syrian crisis and is greatly concerned with its solution, “and for that we are continuing the efforts led by His Majesty King Abdullah in order to take practical steps towards this solution.” He stressed that refugees crisis is a fundamental issue for Jordan, as it hosts about 1.3 million Syrian brothers, only 10 per cent of whom live in refugee camps, and 90 per cent are scattered in all cities, villages and towns of the Kingdom, pointing out that Jordan has granted more than 300,000 work permits to refugees, and that about 155,000 Syrian students are studying in public schools.

Source: Jordan News Agency