Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held their first formal meeting on Saturday in an attempt to revive peace talks. "This is the beginning of a series of meetings. It was a good meeting. There was agreement on several issues," Nabil Abu Rdainah, an aide to Abbas, told Reuters after the two-hour talks in Jerusalem.
Officials described the meeting as a private one, and therefore the two leaders did not hold a press conference at the end of the talks.
Abbas was accompanied by former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei and one of his close aides Saeb Erekat.
