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SANTIAGO: Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said she and visiting King Abdullah II of Jordan agreed the Middle East should strive for "balance" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Bachelet said Chile and Jordan share a vision of "balance between the right the state of Israel has to exist within safe borders and the right of the Palestinians to a free and sovereign state."
"Multilateralism must guide the foreign policy of every country, more so at the present time that makes us share both in the advantages and problems of globalisation," Bachelet told a joint press conference Monday after meeting with the monarch.
Abdullah said he looked forward to increasing trade between Chile and Jordan during his talks here, and invited Bachelet to visit his country next year.
"I hope we get the chance of building new bridges in the relations between our two nations," he said.
Meanwhile, the king's Palestinian-born wife Queen Rania on Monday visited a Santiago nursery and the Interactive Mirador Museum.
The royal couple was to be feted at a gala dinner at Chile's Palacio de la Moneda, Bachelet's presidential headquarters.
On Tuesday, the king is expected to give a speech about the Islamic world, and also take part in a binational business roundtable gathering.
Jordanian officials said Abdullah's itinerary in his first-ever tour of Latin America will also take him to Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras and Cuba.
- AFP/yb
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