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Egypt, Jordan and Morocco to Attend U.S. Peace Plan Conference in Bahrain
(Axios) Barak Ravid - Egypt and Morocco have informed the White House they will attend the conference in Bahrain on June 25-26 at which the U.S. will launch the economic portion of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, officials tells me, after King Abdullah II announced Jordan would also attend. The Palestinians are boycotting the conference. King Abdullah said Tuesday that Jordan must attend every international meeting on the Palestinian issue. "We have to be in the room," he stressed. At the same time, he said he doesn't expect anything to happen this summer with the political part of the U.S. peace plan.