Rice to Meet Abbas Again
“We will be monitoring and verifying”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Monday before heading for a final session with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan as she wraps up a three-day mission intended to reinvogorate Mideast peace talks.
There was no immediate indication from any of the parties what, if anything, came from her separate morning meetings in Jerusalem with former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Talks with the two sides a day earlier produced Israeli promises to ease restrictions in the West Bank. Read more