JORDAN AND SPAIN ON MONDAY ADOPTED A JOINT BLUEPRINT WHICH THEY SAID WAS DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE A PROPOSED "ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS", DPA REPORTED. THE DOCUMENT, ENTITLED JORDANIAN-SPANISH AMMAN DECLARATION, ENVISAGED AMONG OTHER THINGS AN IN-DEPTH DIALOGUE BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY, AN ACADEMIC APPROACH FOR COMBATING EXTREMISM AND A "BALANCE" BETWEEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. THE DOCUMENT WAS ADOPTED BY SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER MIGUEL MORATINOS AND HIS JORDANIAN COUNTERPART ABDUL ILAH KHATIB ON THE OCCASION OF THE ARRIVAL IN JORDAN EARLIER OF SPAIN'S ROYAL COUPLE, KING JUAN CARLOS AND QUEEN SOFIA, FOR A THREE-DAY STATE VISIT. MORATINOS AND KHATIB SAID THEY HAD AGREED TO SET UP A TASK FORCE COMPRISING SENIOR OFFICIALS AND CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS FROM THE TWO COUNTRIES TO WORK OUT "A VISION ABOUT THE BEST WAYS FOR BOOSTING UNDERSTANDING AND MUTUAL RESPECT BETWEEN THE WEST ON ONE SIDE AND THE ARAB-ISLAMIC WORLD ON THE OTHER." --MORE 2246 Local Time 1946 GMT
