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Abbas, Olmert to meet this week

Published: Dec. 25, 2007 at 2:21 PM

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the National Security Studies "Security Challenges of the 21st. Century" Conference in Tel Aviv, December 11, 2007. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill) View slideshow

U.S. President George W. Bush (C), Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greet prior to the beginning of the Annapolis Peace Conference in Memorial Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on November 27, 2007. The meetings are focused at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA, speaks about a potential investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for lying to Congress at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 26, 2007. (UPI Photo/David Brody)

JERICHO, West Bank, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The chief Palestinian negotiator said Tuesday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet this week.

Saeb Erekat told U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter during a meeting in Jericho Abbas will seek a promise from Olmert to end construction of new settlements, KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency, reported. Israel recently said it would build 750 housing units in Maale Adumim in the West Bank and Har Homa in east Jerusalem.

Erekat urged Washington to keep its word to oversee implementation of the so-called Road Map to peace. The meeting between Abbas and Olmert is one of a series aimed at working out a peace accord that could lead to a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.