{"id":26762,"date":"2021-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/jba-chief-lauds-kings-efforts-to-strengthen-jordan-us-relations\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:49:01","slug":"jba-chief-lauds-kings-efforts-to-strengthen-jordan-us-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/jba-chief-lauds-kings-efforts-to-strengthen-jordan-us-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"JBA chief lauds King&#8217;s efforts to strengthen Jordan-US relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>President of the Jordan Businessmen Association (JBA), Hamdi Tabbaa, praised His Majesty King Abdullah II&#8217;s efforts to strengthen Jordan-US relations in various political and economic fields.<br \/>\nIn a press statement on Sunday, he stressed the importance of harnessing &#8220;expected positive&#8221; outcomes of the King&#8217;s visit to Washington on the ground by creating opportunities that would contribute to achieving development in Jordan&#8217;s business environment and strengthening the export sector.<br \/>\nThe Royal visit, which comes amid the current conditions due to the pandemic-induced economic repercussions, reflects &#8220;strong and long-standing&#8221; Jordanian-American relations, and contributes to developing future prospects for bilateral ties at the regional and international levels, according to Tabbaa.<br \/>\nThe King&#8217;s visit to Washington is a &#8220;positive&#8221; opportunity to discuss and resolve all pending issues, and to present his political and economic visions to serve Jordan&#8217;s interests, especially since His Majesty is the first Arab leader to meet the U.S. president, he pointed out.<br \/>\nThe Jordanian business community, he noted, is looking forward &#8220;with optimism&#8221; to the visit&#8217;s outcomes and its agenda to reach a &#8220;new&#8221; stage of bilateral relations to serve common interests.<br \/>\nJordan, he said, plays an &#8220;important&#8221; role in the region, as the Kingdom has always had great &#8220;historic&#8221; positions towards major Arab issues aimed to achieve regional stability.<br \/>\nTabbaa noted the &#8220;strategic&#8221; relations between the two countries have witnessed development over the past years, adding that the King&#8217;s visit contributes to opening &#8220;wider&#8221; horizons for joint trade and investment cooperation, which would help Jordanian economy grow and recover.<br \/>\nThe United States is an important trading partner for Jordan, especially since the two countries signed Free Trade Agreement in 2000, which entered into force in 2001, he noted.<br \/>\nThe agreement formed the basis for the bilateral partnership, which would enhance competitiveness of Jordanian exports and facilitate their entry to the American market, according to Tabbaa.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Jordan Businessmen Association (JBA), Hamdi Tabbaa, praised His Majesty King Abdullah II&#8217;s efforts to strengthen Jordan-US relations in various political and economic fields. In a press statement on Sunday, he stressed the importance of harnessing &#8220;expected positive&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}