His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday said dissolving Parliament was “out of the question” and would not solve the present crisis between deputies and the government.



Interviewed by the London-based Al Hayat daily, King Abdullah said: “I respect the position of the House and value the wisdom and stand of the prime minister [Adnan Badran]."


“The government and Parliament should deal with any problem through dialogue and democratic means. Our democracy absorbs all opinions,” the King told Editor-in-Chief Ghassan Sharbel.


The King said a rational evaluation of the government should be based on its programmes and not its members.


He added that although he realized that the regions that were not represented in the government's composition were full of capable and experienced individuals.


King Abdullah told Sharbel that several factors led to the change of government in April.


“But the most important reason was to speed up and institutionalize reform. I felt that reform and modernization plans were moving slowly,” he explained.


King Abdullah, meanwhile, said the former Iraqi regime refused to turn over wanted terrorist Abu Mussab Zarqawi, the most-wanted man in the neighboring country.


“From the time Zarqawi entered Iraq, before the fall of the former regime, we made great efforts to bring him back and try him here, but our requests to the former regime were in vain,” he said.
His Majesty said the government is examining the legal and financial aspects of the case of Iraqi Deputy Premier Ahmed Chalabi.


King Abdullah said Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who visited Jordan earlier this month, asked him to “find a suitable solution for both sides.”


On the Palestinian situation, the King said Jordan has trained a 1,000-strong Palestinian security force, the Badr Brigades, to be deployed in West Bank cities and towns after Israel's withdrawal to ensure law and order.

The Jordan Times