Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh early next week, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.
"The meeting will talk place on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh ... (they) will discuss the recent Palestinian developments as well as well as ways of reviving the peace process," said the official, according to Reuters. Jordan's King Abdullah II was also invited to attend the summit.
The summit will focus around bolstering Abbas and opening diplomatic channels between Abbas and Olmert, following the Hamas takeover in the Gaza Strip last week and the establishment of an emergency government in Ramallah over the weekend.
Abbas's aide Yasser Abed Rabbo said Thursday that the Palestinians demand concrete results from the gathering, and warned that if it ended without results, it would cause more harm than good. "We want the summit to remove the [economic] siege and the checkpoints that suffocate the life of the Palestinian people," he said, according to the AP.
An official in Olmert's office said a meeting between the two leaders was possible but that no date had been set.
