South Korea has expressed its readiness to provide Jordan with expertise in industrial and scientific research, particularly in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, daily newspaper The Jordan Times reported on Monday.
According to the report, South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo made the promise while meeting with Jordan's Lower House Speaker Abdul Hadi Majali who is currently in South Korea on a visit.
During the visit, Majali has toured a nuclear power plant of South Korea, where its director expressed the country's interest in cooperating with Jordan in the field of nuclear energy.
The South Korean premier also stressed his country's interest in several economic and development initiatives in Jordan, particularly the Ababa Special Economic Zone and the Red-Dead Water Conveyance Study Program.
Unlike its oil-rich neighbors, Jordan lacks energy resources. It depends on imports of oil and natural gas for 95 percent of its energy consumption, which annually costs nearly a quarter of its revenue, according to official data.
Jordan's King Abdullah II announced in January 2007 a civil nuclear energy program, under which a nuclear plant will be set up by 2015 and nuclear power is expected to make up 30 percent of its energy production by 2030.
Source:Xinhua
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