02-01-2007 14:00
Jordan's King Abdullah has complained of bad smells coming from his Israeli neighbours.
The monarch has become so infuriated by bovine odours wafting over the southern border he shares with Israel and blowing towards his royal palace in Aqaba, that he has instructed officials to request the smells be neutralized.
Israeli's environmental minister Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio that the unpleasant smells were coming from a livestock quarantine facility at Kibbutz Eilot, north of Eilat.
Ezra added that Israel were keen to keep good relations with their neighbouring country, saying: "I think that when we get a request from Jordan, just as when we make a request of Jordan, it's one country's duty to do as much as possible for the other."
A spokesman for Israel's Environment Ministry, Sharon Achdut, revealed that in response to Jordan's complaint the owners of the facility had been instructed to clean up the large amount of animal waste that had built-up on the site.
Jordan and Israel signed a historic peace treaty in 1994, which resolved territorial disputes and normalised relations between the two countries.
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