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AMMAN, June 3 (KUNA) -- Parliamentarians and trade unions across Jordan
carried out several demonstrations on Friday condemning the Israeli occupation
of the Palestinian territories, while calling for political and economic
reforms in their country.
Opposition parties marched in central Amman after Friday prayers, chanting
slogans in support of the Palestinian people on the occasion of the passing of
44 years since Israel's further occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands in
June, 1967.
They called on the international community to bear responsibility in ending
the occupation and to allow the Palestinians an independent state, with
Jerusalem as its capital.
Another demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Amman called for the
embassy to be closed and its ambassador extradited, as well as the annulment
of the Jordanian-Israeli peace initiative signed in 1994.
Other demonstrations in cities across the country called for tackling
corruption and hastening reform, in addition to laws that organize political
affairs - particularly those related to parties and parliamentary elections.
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