JERUSALEM, April 7, 2008, (WAFA) - President Abbas and Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert are meeting today in Jerusalem for resuming the meetings aim at achieving a kind of progress in the current negotiations between the two sides.

This meeting comes after the visit paid by US secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region in which she called on both sides to resume meetings between Abbas and Olmert.

On the eve of the said meeting, Abbas declared that "there will be no peace agreement with Israel in whatever price", intensifying that the Palestinians are eager to settle all the core issue of the final status negotiations and calling on the Israelis to hastily exploit such a chance available".

Abbas' media advisor Nabil Amr said that Abbas will tackle, during the meeting, the core issues of the final status, coexisting with the Israeli implementation of the Road Map requirements and uplifting the siege on Gaza Strip.