EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday that the deadlocked Middle East peace process needs to advance "now more than ever," after talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.
"The peace process now more than ever needs to move forward because ensuring stability and security for the people of Israel, the people of Palestine is a very important ambition," she told a joint news conference with Judeh.
"It is an important ambition that needs to be realised as quickly as possible."
Ashton said "the collaboration that could take place between Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu and president (Mahmud) Abbas to realise that ambition.
"We would like very much to see and would support," said Asthon, who also held talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II.
"So I hope they will get back into talks as quickly as possible and I think, if they do, they will find great support."
Ashton said in Israel on Tuesday that the international community still sought to achieve a peace deal and a Palestinian state by September, despite the political turmoil rocking the Middle East.
Ashton sought to galvanise Israel and the Palestinians into resuming peace negotiations, which have been deadlocked since September in a row over persistent Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
The deadline for achieving a peace deal was initially set by US President Barack Obama when he launched American-sponsored direct peace talks on September 2, only for the process to be suspended three weeks later.
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