Rice mengatakan pertemuan dengan Perdana Menteri Israel Ehud Olmert dan Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas akan menjadi pembahasan tak resmi dan bukan perundingan.
Rice is to hold a three-way meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after spending the weekend shuttling between the two sides holding talks she described as extensive, cordial and candid.