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Friday, July 18, 1997 | return to: international
Israeli army chief visits his Jordanian counterpart
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Israeli army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak visited Jordan last week on the first official trip, Hosted by his Jordanian counterpart, Field Marshal Abdul-Hafez Murei Ka'abneh, Shahak's two-day visit starting Tuesday of last w
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The 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty includes defense cooperation, but this has largely been limited to preventing infiltration from Jordan to Israel and to fighting drug smuggling.
But there are also the beginnings of Israeli support for the Jordanian army's logistics, and Israel is providing some spare military parts and land mine-clearing equipment.
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