NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A high-level meeting of the four mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are planning to formally meet in New York on Sept. 26, it was announced.
Fred Ekhard, official representative of the U.N. secretary-general, told Novosti news service the participants will include Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The third member, the European Union, will be represented by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Javier Solana, High Commissioner for EU foreign contacts.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will represent the fourth member of the group, the United Nations, at the meeting.
Ivanov said he is going to invite the Quartet to work more vigorously to regain its authority and get Middle East peace talks back on course.
