Little progress expected from Abbas-Olmert meeting Sunday

Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were set to meet in Jerusalem Sunday, but observers warned that little progress could be expected from the parley. Reports in the Israeli media ahead of the talks said Olmert was expected to tell Abbas that Israel was not prepared to deal with any Palestinian national unity government unless it accepted international demands to recognise Israel, renounce violence and honour prior Israeli-Palestinian agreements. Negotiations on the national unity government, between the ruling Hamas movement and Abbas' Fatah party, are in an advanced stage and the new cabinet is expected to be announced in the coming days. Olmert is also expected to reject a request by Abbas to extend to the West Bank a truce instituted in the Gaza Strip on November 28. Officials in the premier's office said there was no chance of the ceasefire being widened, in light of the Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli towns and villages border the salient. Israeli officials quoted in The Jerusalem Post daily said the purpose of Sunday's talks was simply 'to keep the lines of communications open.' The meeting will be the third between the two men since December 24. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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