Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday visited Jordan as part of efforts to coordinate stands with Arabs after his talks with US president Barack Obama.

The visit to the kingdom was to coordinate positions with Arab states after the Washington trip, Abbas told reporters after his talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman.

The president briefed the King on his talks in Washington, and the two leaders discussed efforts to launch serious negotiations to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution, said a statement from the Royal Hashemite Court.

Abbas told reporters that the United States maintained that every party, both Palestinians and Israelis, has to carry out what the first clause of the Road Map asks them to do, in order to pave the way for launching the peace process.

He affirmed that Palestinians would carry out their part of the bargain, but the Israelis should also live up to their obligations, mainly halting settlement expansion, including natural growth.

"The Americans comprehended all this and have asked the Israelis to carry it out, and then come steps to return to negotiations on the basis of the Road Map and the Arab peace initiatives, which have not been changed," he added.

Abbas held his first meeting with Obama in Washington on May 28.

(Xinhua News Agency June 1, 2009)