Ammon News - Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi and his Dutch counterpart Sigrid Kaag Tuesday discussed over the phone bolstering bilateral ties and regional developments.

The diplomats explored strengthening defence, security, trade and investment cooperation, in addition to regional developments, especially in the occupied Palestinian territories and the international effort to resolve the region's crises and uphold peace.

Safadi praised the Netherlands for its support of the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

He reiterated the need to settle the conflict on the two-state solution that would guarantee the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state on the 4 June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital as per the pertinent UN resolutions.

The meeting discussed the international efforts to rebuild Gaza, which had been decimated in an 11-day Israeli military campaign, as well as upholding the ceasefire in the besieged exclave.

They emphasized the rights of the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah Neighbourhood, demanding the Israeli authorities to respect Jerusalem's "legal and historical" status quo.

Also on the agenda were the Syrian crisis and the international efforts to find a political solution to the crisis.

In turn, Kaag commended Jordan for its role in upholding regional stability and security and its "big" role in taking in Syrian refugees.