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Washington (JTA) — Jorda- nian Foreign Minister Taher al- Masri arrived in Washington Tuesday for talks with Adminis- tration and congressional offi- cials, In what he said would be a continued effort to win renewed American involvement in the peace process based on the agree- ment reached last month between Jordan and the Palestine Libera- tion Organization. His arrival in the U.S. follows a visit last week by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who flew to Amman Tuesday for talks with Jordan's King Hussein. Mubarak and Hussein then left Amman unexpectedly for Baghdad. "We have been positive; we ex- pect the others to take a step," the Foreign Minister told reporters at a briefing sponsored by Foreign Policy, the quarterly magazine. He maintained that the texts of the agreement indicated that Jor- dan had "achieved something with the PLO," which "needs to be reciprocated" before any further Arab concessions could be made. The agreement concluded be- tween King Hussein and PLO leader Yassir Arafat on Feb. 11 calls for negotiations "under the auspices of an international con- ference" in which the PLO would participate as part of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delega-, tion. Jordan and Egypt have argued that the agreement reflects a change in the PLO position be- cause it accepts the principle of "territories for peace" on the basis of UN Security Council Resolu- tions. The U.S. has called the agreement "a positive step" but continues to insist on explicit ac- ceptance of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, as well as recognition of Israel's right to exist, as a condition for beginning any dialogue with the PLO. In. Ottawa, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said last week that the Jordan-PLO proposals were "intended to con- fuse and mislead." "Israel cannot and will not seek peace at any price as some Arab leaders propose," Shamir said in an address to Canadian officials, parlimentarians and guests attending the gala dinner of the Canada-Israel Committee. "They aim at a peace not with Israel but to a position in which Israel will not exist." Meanwhfle, following his re- turn to Egypt, Mubarak conceded that he had failed to convince the United States to back his peace plan. He experienced a similar lack of success with French President Francois Mitterand, whom he met before going to Washington, and with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Chancellor Helmut' Kohl of West Germany on his way back. They, in effect, wished him luck in his peace efforts but of- fered no commitments of support for his plan. _ Uruguay Embassy Move Opposed By Mubarak New York (JTA) — Uruguay is ready to move its embassy in Is- rael to Jerusalem, the World Jewish Congress reported Tues- day. American Jewish leaders meanwhile, told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during their meeting last week that they were not happy with Egyptian ef- forts to block the move, according to the WJC. Uruguay, like the majority of nations having diplomatic rela- tions with Israel, currently main-. tains its embassy in Tel Aviv. Fol- lowing the recent election of a democratic regime in Uruguay, the government privately indi- cated through diplomatic chan- nels that it would soon transfer its embassy to Jerusalem. Last year, Costa Rica and El Salvador transferred their em- bassies from Tel Aviv to the Is- raeli capital. At the time, the Egyptians responded sharply, first with warnings against the embassy transfers and then with a break in diplomatic relations with both Central American courftries. ti The Uruguayan Ambassador in Cairo was summoned to the Egyp- tian Foreign Ministry earlier this month, where he was warned that the placement by Uruguay of its embassy in Jerusalem would lead to rupture of relations with Cairo, a WJC spkesman said. , "During last week's meeting in Washington between President Mubarak and two dozen Ameri- can Jewish leaders, the Egyptian president was asked to comment on this regrettable development," according to Frieda Lewis, chair- man of the WJC American Sec- tion, who was at the meeting. Mubarak reportedly sought to play down the incident and re- called the exchange of letters on the subject of Jerusalem between former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the late President Anwar Sadat. Mubarak said that the sensitivities of all parties regarding the Jerusalem issue had led the two former lead- ers to agree that the problem- should be left for the end of the peace process. This, he said, ac- counted for the Egyptian response to any action which was seen as affecting the status of Jerusalem. Matriculating Tel Aviv (JTA) — Ten Ethio- pian Jews are now studying at Tel Aviv University after having attended special preparatory courses, ands, another 11 are now attending the,pre-university "mehina" course to bring them up to required standards.