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		U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas shaking hands at a press conference in Ramallah on Thursday. (AP)

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White House: U.S. President, PA Chair to meet in N.Y. on Monday

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters

The United States White House confirmed late Thursday that American President George W. Bush and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas would meet in New York on Monday.

The two leaders are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York next week, the White House said.

The meeting will be to "continue discussions on helping the Palestinian Authority, and on issues related to an eventual two state solution of Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security," said White House National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe.

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Abbas said earlier that he and Bush would "continue our talks on seeking a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East" during their planned meeting next week.

Earlier Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. After the meeting, Rice said that the upcoming peace summit in Washington must be substantive, using whatever document Israel and the Palestinians formulate beforehand as the basis for serious talks.

"I will work, I know that the president [Abbas] and Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert will work, and that their teams will work, very aggressively, very urgently, to lay the groundwork for a successful meeting," Rice said.

The secretary of state did not address any of the disagreements between the parties on the nature of the document being negotiated. The PA is asking for an agreement of principles that would outline solutions on core final-status issues, while Israel is only interested in a joint declaration.

"What kind of document comes out of these discussions is something they will have to work out," said Rice, adding that she hoped it would lead to "serious negotiations for the establishment of a Palestinian state as soon as possible."

He also reiterated that he hopes the summit in Washington will lead to serious negotiations between Israel and the PA.

"We believe that the time has come to establish an independent Palestinian state, with its capital in East Jerusalem, that will coexist in peace and security [with] Israel," Abbas said.

Other Arab states, he warned, are hesitant to declare that they will attend the summit because of its undefined goals. "It is necessary to define many subjects, and I believe this is the responsibility of the hosts," he said

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2.	Didn`t Bush promise a Palestinian state by 2005?	01:27	\|	peacelover	21/09/07

3.	Nicholas Brown Is Right	02:12	\|	Ron the American	21/09/07

4.	abbas hoping for that tea&sympathy in the rose garden!but the	02:12	\|	lakshmi	21/09/07

5.	TINY ISRAEL and the MUSLIM STATES	02:33	\|	Morice	21/09/07

6.	Goals and the UN	02:36	\|	Paul	21/09/07

7.	5Morice&6Paul,sure we all want this conflict to end,but there has	03:36	\|	lakshmi	21/09/07

8.	Paul	03:57	\|	Tareq	21/09/07

9.	Abbas and Olmert wish the conference won`t happen	04:09	\|	nobodysacred	21/09/07

10.	Ron #3	04:42	\|	Joseph	21/09/07

11.	Ron	05:08	\|	pause	21/09/07

12.	5....?????	07:24	\|	ravi	21/09/07

13.	2....promise... what promise?	07:28	\|	ravi	21/09/07

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15.	Bush is passing out scripts	09:22	\|	Natallie Durson	21/09/07

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