BRUSSELS — US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East peace adviser Jared Kushner will hold talks with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Tuesday, the EU announces.
“The [EU Commission] president [Jean-Claude Juncker] will meet Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump. They will discuss the Middle East situation and other geopolitical issues,” Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva told reporters.
Kushner is set to launch the first, economic, phase of the long-touted Trump administration peace plan later this month. A number of Sunni Arab states have said they will attend the rollout in Bahrain, as will Israel, but Palestinians have declined to attend, citing what they say is the Trump administration’s bias.
Trump administration officials have in recent weeks dampened expectations about the peace rollout. Kushner in an interview broadcast Sunday expressed doubts about the Palestinians ability to govern themselves, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, last week told Jewish leaders that the plan might not “gain traction.”
— AFP and JTA
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