Sure, and I'll try to keep it extremely brief.
In February of this year, I went to Amman to discuss with Ministry of Interior officials the Jordanian practice of arbitrarily withdrawing Jordanian nationality from citizens of Palestinian origin.
In 1988 King Hussein of Jordan stated that he would have nothing more to do, legally and administratively, with the West Bank, which had been occupied by Israel since 1967, and that everybody living there would not have Jordanian citizenship any longer.
What we're seeing now are repercussions of that 1988 decision. Jordanians of Palestinian origin who might have been in Kuwait at the time or even living in Jordan are still having their citizenship withdrawn. It is an ongoing practice. It is clearly in violation of Jordanian law. It is contrary to international laws, some of which Jordan has not yet signed, such as the treaty on the prevention of statelessness, for example. It also comes in the current context of peace negotiations and the climate in the Middle East. Jordan wants to preserve a position whereby the largest possible number of persons living in Jordan are stateless so that they might qualify to be refugees and either go back to Israel or the West Bank, should there ever be a peace agreement, or receive compensation.
These persons, in terms of the right to work, have loss their residency status in Jordan, do not have the right to work, either in the public or the private sector, and need special permission to do so, which is issued by the intelligence service there.