Rice will meet with Abbas
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From Times Wire Reports
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank this week in an attempt to build on momentum from a new truce in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
The meeting was announced a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, saying his country would be willing to leave most of the West Bank to make way for an independent Palestinian state there and in Gaza.
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