![]() ![]() The two countries have good political and domestic relations. These talks manifested into the formal peace treaty signed in October 1994 at the Aqaba-Eilat border crossing, which officially marked the end of the war. The Madrid Conference of 1991 marked the beginning of the end of the war, giving birth to bilateral talks between the two countries. Although they spent 46 years at war, they maintained contacts and made clandestine mutually beneficial agreements during that period. The two countries were in a state of war from 1948 to 1994. Jordan and Israel have not always been in peaceful co-existence. The agreed boundary represented battle positions held by Israeli and, then, Transjordan forces when the UN-mediated ceasefire came into effect. The boundary between Israel and Jordan is based on an Armistice agreement established in 1949 between Transjordan and Israel. They have remained allies despite Jordan’s reluctance to support Saudi Arabia in the Yemen intervention and the 2017- 2018 Qatar diplomatic crisis. Saudi Arabia and Jordan are both Sunni Monarchies, with deep family ties. The agreement also enabled the two countries to share revenues from petroleum discovered. The agreement led to the lengthening of Jordan’s coastline by 4.97 miles which facilitated the expansion of Jordan port infrastructure. The two countries later reached a bilateral agreement in 1965 realigning the initial delimited boundary set out in the Hadda Agreement. The Hadda Agreement in 1925 first established the border between the two countries. Saudi Arabia shares a border with Jordan. Jordan’s international borders do not follow definitive terrain features. ![]() To the South of Jordan is the Red Sea which is also the only outlet to sea at the Gulf of Aqaba. The country is located between Levantine and the Arabian region of the Middle East, and it is bordered by four countries: Syria, Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Jordan is a relatively small country in Southwest Asia which occupies an area of approximately 37,138 square miles including the Dead Sea. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |