Pengamat Palestina di PBB, Ryad Mansour, mengatakan kepada para wartawan bahwa Erekat menjelaskan, bahwa reaksi awal Rice terhadap kesepakatan Mekkah adalah 'berhati-hati', namun kepala diplomat AS itu 'antusias' terhadap pertemuan tingkat tingginya dengan Abbas dan Perdana Menteri Israel Ehud Olmert pada 19 Februari.
Palestinian observer to the UN Ryad Mansour told reporters that Erekat indicated that Rice's initial reaction to the Mecca agreement was cautious and that the US chief diplomat was enthusiastic about her three-way summit with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on February 19.