AMMONNEWS - HRH Prince Hassan warned against the dangers that continued unrest might bring to ‎the region saying that while constructive interaction has started in some corners of the ‎Arab world such as Morocco and Bahrain, the situation is going drastically wrong ‎elsewhere with ‘bandwagoning either by the army or by political parties with an ‎agenda.’‎

‎“The fact that the young people still go back to Tahrir Square is a very dangerous ‎situation because if it is met by force and confronted, it will just push the movement ‎underground and when that happens that is the real danger. The traditional parties, the ‎ideologies, will take over from those who aspire to free thought and free expression,” ‎Prince Hassan said.‎

During an interview on Jazeera’s ‘Frost over the World’ program His Royal Highness ‎underscored the need for an Arab council that responds to and delivers what the ‎masses want. He said that regional slogans are not sufficient and stressed that there ‎needs to be a substantial commitment to real issues.‎

‎“I have been waiting, as Chairman of the Arab Thought Forum for the past two ‎months, to go and visit Cairo under the umbrella of the Arab League but they have ‎been too busy fighting fires at the moment. This is why I am saying we need an ‎economic and social council which supports the league and discusses what people ‎really want. The slogans are not enough, he said”‎

His Royal Highness emphasized that people in the region, “the twitter crowd, the blog ‎crowd” don’t understand why it is that nobody in authority, can give them answers.‎

Prince Hassan, who attended a high-level meeting held by the Trilateral Commission ‎at The Hague in conjunction with the West Asia North Africa Forum during his ‎current trip to England, highlighted the importance of looking at the region as a ‎region. “I think that, despite the fact, that we are bombarded with local news, we ‎simply have to try to look at the big picture, he said” ‎

Speaking to Sir David Frost on Jazeera’s English Channel in London, he added that ‎continuing to look at Arabs, whether Christian or Moslem in a ‘minlateral’ context of ‎Druze, Copts, Shiite and Sunni and Shiite Arab and Shiite Iranian is complicating ‎matters and usurping the energy and space of the airwaves.‎

‎“If you are talking about the future of a region then we strategically have to encourage ‎that region to come forward and develop its own economic social council. Regional ‎responsibility and regional commons have to come to the fore, including of course the ‎moral imperative, human dignity,” he said.‎

Prince Hassan, who also addressed members of the Royal United Services Institute ‎‎(RUSI) in London last week, linked the success of security in the region directly to ‎the defence of human dignity. ‎

His Royal Highness, who is Chairman of the West Asia North Africa Forum, urged all ‎players to come to the table through the form of a Conference for Security and ‎Cooperation in the Middle East, something he has called for since the mid 1990’s, ‎saying “this is the time to get our act together.”‎

He outlined that the conference should involve the Security Council, all the countries ‎of the Middle East and West Asia, including strategic interest pillars Saudi Arabia and ‎Qatar and the new players in the Mediterranean like India and China. ‎

‎“As far as regional issues, I think that the Syrian solution may be in a conference in ‎the way that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia once called for the Taif Conference for the ‎resolution of fighting in Lebanon,” he told Al-Jazeera’s English Channel audience. ‎

‎“Just to sit back and say if you want to beat Iran you should beat Syria first or break ‎Syria first is not acceptable. So I say Iran has a role in Syria, and Turkey has a role in ‎Syria.Can they not help in negotiating an outcome, possibly supporting the Arab ‎League?," Prince Hassan added.‎