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Bush to hold meeting with Abbas; will assess stalled US-backed negotiations with Israel
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are assessing the stalled U.S.-backed negotiations with Israel that will almost certainly fail to meet a year-end deadline for a peace deal.
In what is likely their last face-to-face talks before Bush leaves office next month, Bush and Abbas are to meet Friday, days after the U.N. Security Council endorsed the administration’s Annapolis peace process. The president launched the signature initiative on Mideast relations with Abbas and outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in November 2007.
Bush had his final meeting with Olmert last month.
The White House says Bush wants to discuss developments in the process as well as efforts to assist the Palestinians with preparations for eventual statehood, including building institutions of governance, boosting economic development and training and deploying Palestinian security forces.
Ahead of the meeting, Abbas had scheduled a working dinner Thursday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The secretary has said she believes the Annapolis process is the best way to seal a long-elusive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and she has encouraged President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration to carry it forward.
In what is likely their last face-to-face talks before Bush leaves office next month, Bush and Abbas are to meet Friday, days after the U.N. Security Council endorsed the administration’s Annapolis peace process. The president launched the signature initiative on Mideast relations with Abbas and outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in November 2007.
Bush had his final meeting with Olmert last month.
The White House says Bush wants to discuss developments in the process as well as efforts to assist the Palestinians with preparations for eventual statehood, including building institutions of governance, boosting economic development and training and deploying Palestinian security forces.
Ahead of the meeting, Abbas had scheduled a working dinner Thursday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The secretary has said she believes the Annapolis process is the best way to seal a long-elusive peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and she has encouraged President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration to carry it forward.
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