His Majesty King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and preparations for the international peace meeting.

President Abbas briefed the King on the outcome of his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

King Abdullah expressed hope that the Annapolis meeting would provide a platform to relaunch negotiations on final status issues and pave the way for peaceful and just solutions on all other tracks of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

He also underlined the importance of seizing the opportunity at hand to address the Syrian and Lebanese peace tracks, especially the question of the occupied Golan Heights.

The King renewed Jordan's support for the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to reach a clear understanding with the Israeli side to ensure that Annapolis meeting succeeds in laying the ground for viable solutions to final status issues, on the basis of international resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.

The major outcome of the efforts, said King Abdullah, should be the establishment of a Palestinian state on all Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza, in accordance with a fixed time frame.

The King said he would intensify consultations and contacts with Arab leaders in the few coming days to develop a unified Arab stand to back the Palestinian position in the meeting.

In a statement to the press following his meeting with King Abdullah, Abbas said there is a document under discussion which could be finalized later “especially that we are in the last hour of the negotiations, and it is normal that we face some problems and obstacles”.