King Hussein of Jordan and a high-ranking Arab League delegation arrived in China Sunday, hopeful of winning Chinese support for a Middle East peace compromise.
Hussein and fellow Arabs arrived from Pakistan, where they dined with President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq during a 17-hour stopover en route from Moscow.
The tour is aimed at winning support from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council for the Arab League peace plan agreed upon at Fez, Morocco. Hussein travels to the United States later this month.
In Moscow, Hussein and the Arab delegation held talks with new leader Yuri Andropov, who said the U.S. Middle East peace plan was useless.
Hussein was asked in Islamabad how he would procede now that Andropov has rejected the Reagan plan and Washington has opposed the Fez plan.
‘Our mission has been to explain the 8-point Fez plan,’ the king said. ‘This is what we have concentrated upon throughout our visits so far and once we have a complete picture we will put it together to see where do we go.’
Besides Hussein, the delegation included Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud Ibn FAISAL, Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Boucetta, Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Qasem, Tunisian Foreign Minister Beji Cai Essebsi, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi, PLO executive committee member Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League Secretary-General Chedli Klibi.
