Rice mengatakan, Minggu, telah terdapat keraguan tentang pengaturan untuk mengumpulkan Olmert dan Abbas di tengah kemarahan Israel menyangkut kesepakatan Abbas atas pembagian kekuasaan dengan Hamas yang dicapai bulan ini.
Rice spent Sunday shuttling between the Israelis and the Palestinians, trying to agree an agenda for the talks which have been overshadowed by a deal to form a Palestinian government comprising Abbas's Fatah party and the militant movement Hamas.