Ma'an – A senior Palestinian official told Agance France-Presse on Tuesday that the United States has decided that the international peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, will begin on November 26th.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly informed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the date of the meeting on Monday. Rice plans to return to the Middle East November 15th to help Palestinian and Israeli negotiators finalize a join document that will be the basis of negotiations at the Annapolis summit. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters Tuesday that the peace conference would take place in the last week of November, but that invitations have not yet been sent. Olmert said that Syrian participation in the meeting "is the right thing." |