Israel's Olmert begins U.S. visit to bolster Abbas
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a U.S. visit on Sunday saying he considered a new emergency Palestinian government shorn of Islamist Hamas a partner for peace negotiations.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Sunday for their second summit in a month
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- Aides are planning a long-awaited summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, which could revive peace talks, officials from both sides said yesterday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Abbas and Olmert last week to push forward such dialogue, stalled by regional violence, the election of a Hamas-led government, and the ...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week, keeping alive a U.S.-backed dialogue despite Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli air raids in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he intended to meet with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
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President George W. Bush arrives in Israel on Wednesday aiming to boost efforts to achieve a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians before he leaves office in a year.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed the hope Wednesday that the U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference later this year will mark the beginning of the end of his country's conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday to see if they can narrow differences over Palestinian statehood ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference in November.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   said he hoped to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas   within days for a summit the international community believes   could help revive peace talks.
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Israeli leader Ehud Olmert told Tony   Blair on Saturday he was ready to meet the Palestinian   president as the British prime minister began a visit to try to   revive Middle East peace negotiations.
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Tony Blair dined with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, beginning his first working visit as the international community's new envoy to the Middle East.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a surprise visit to Jordan on Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah II on ways to revive Mideast peacemaking.
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President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed yesterday on a strategy to prop up the embattled Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas with financial aid, eased travel restrictions, moral support and peace talks as they struggled to counter the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who wants to talk peace with Israel, has accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Israel's arch-enemy Iran, officials said on Wednesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh this weekend, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.