41.   Ibrahim also noted that ties between the two countries were set up by the Jordanian monarch and President Saddam Hussein.

42.   Israeli officials said Netanyahu sent a written reply to the Jordanian monarch on Monday before leaving for Russia for a three-day visit.

43.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will accompany the Jordanian monarch during the visit, the radio said.

44.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Thursday invited King Hussein to Jerusalem after the Jordanian monarch made his first public visit to Israel.

45.   A spokesman for the university said the delay was requested by the Jordanian monarch, but no further details were given.

46.   Arafat ordered an elaborate welcoming ceremony for the Jordanian monarch at the airport, seen as an important symbol of Palestinian aspirations to sovereignty.

47.   Arafat went straight into a meeting with the Jordanian monarch after arriving in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba from the autonomous Gaza Strip.

48.   But the Jordanian monarch did not rule out a return of a member of the Hashemite dynasty to the throne in Iraq.

49.   Christopher meanwhile began talks in Amman with King Hussein ahead of the first public meeting on Monday between the Jordanian monarch and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Washington.

50.   Crown Prince Abdallah ibn Abdel Aziz and Defence Minister Prince Sultan were also among the Saudi delegation to welcome the Jordanian monarch.