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Senior delegation to prepare for Abbas visit to U.S.: PNA official

Xinhua, April 13, 2017 Adjust font size:

A senior Palestinian official said on Thursday that a high-ranking delegation is expected to visit Washington at the end of April in preparation for President Mahmoud Abbas's scheduled visit to the United States.

Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad al-Maliki said in a Radio statement that the Palestinian delegation will head for Washington the last week of April to prepare for Abbas's visit with U.S. President Donald Trump early in May.

On March 10, Abbas received a phone call from Trump with an invitation to visit the U.S. soon.

Last month, U.S. Envoy for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, visited Palestinian territories and Israel, and held talks with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It was Greenblatt's first visit to the region since Trump took office as the U.S. President this January.

Greenblatt affirmed that Trump is committed to achieve permanent peace between Palestinians and Israelis through direct peace negotiations.

The last peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians ended in vain around the end of March 2014 following nine months of U.S.-sponsored peace talks. Endit