Mitchell stresses Washington's commitment to attaining Mideast peace

AMMAN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell on Monday emphasized his country's commitment to working "seriously" to bring about peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis based on the two-state solution.

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) meets with U.S. Mideast special envoy George Mitchell in Amman, capital of Jordan, Nov. 2, 2009.(Xinhua Photo)

The U.S. envoy made the remarks at a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan, where he renewed his country's commitment to attaining lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, the Jordan News Agency Petra reported.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated on Monday her country's commitment to the two-state solution before attending a meeting with Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri, on the sidelines of the6th meeting of the Forum for the Future.

At the meeting with Mitchell, the Jordanian King called for freezing all "unilateral Israeli measures that threaten opportunities to attain peace, especially the creation of settlements and measures that threaten the identity of Jerusalem and the holy sites in the city."