By Xinhua
Ramallah : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will head to Saudi Arabia and Egypt to brief their leaders on the talks he held with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday in Amman, an official Palestinian radio reported on Tuesday.
Abbas will meet King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on Tuesday and will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak later on Wednesday in Cairo, according to the radio Voice of Palestine.
Meanwhile, Al-Hayyat, a London-based Arab daily, reported that a three-way summit between Abbas, Mubarak and King Abdullah II of Jordan will be held when Abbas visits Cairo.
Al-Hayyat said the summit will focus on ways of giving success to the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.
During a joint news conference with Rice on Monday, Abbas said he hopes a comprehensive peace deal with Israel would be reached before the end of this year.
He also said he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on April 7 following a suspension of the two men’s regular meetings.
To protest an Israeli military operation in Gaza Strip in late February and early March that killed some 123 Palestinians, Abbas halted his meeting with Olmert and ordered a brief suspension of peace talks between the two sides negotiation teams.