Rice to meet Abbas in Ramallah 'on September 16'

"Dr. Rice will meet with president Abbas on September 16 in Ramallah," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The report could not be confirmed with US officials.

Rice and Abbas last met in Ramallah on August 2, when she said she would visit the region again before an international Middle East peace conference called for by US President George W. Bush this autumn.

Washington has increased its diplomatic efforts to jumpstart dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace talks since the Islamist Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in mid-June, ousting forces loyal to the secular Abbas and cleaving the Palestinians into two entities.

Washington and Israel are now seeking to boost Abbas, who controls the West Bank, and to isolate Hamas which is considered a terror group by the European Union, Israel and the US.

Source

About headlines and content that gets changed after it was added to this site - see disclaimer here

FAIR USE NOTICE

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.