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| Bush meets Abbas for peace talks |
| US President George W Bush has arrived in Ramallah in the West Bank for talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as he continues his Middle East t
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-January-2008
2:36:58 AM |
| A massive security cordon has been thrown round the city for the visit.
The talks are expected to focus on the issue of Israeli settlements and the activities of Palestinian militants.
After meeting Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Mr Bush said he was hopeful a peace deal could be struck during his last year in office.
Mr Bush is trying to use the regional visit to boost Israeli-Palestinian peace talks begun last year.
Security measures
Mr Bush had been due to arrive in Ramallah by helicopter, but extremely wet and foggy weather conditions forced the president to travel in a motorcade instead.
He was greeted on a red carpet by Mr Abbas.
Mr Bush is only the second serving US president to visit the Palestinian territories. Former President Bill Clinton went there in 1998.
In Ramallah, all vehicles have been banned from the roads in districts around the headquarters of Mr Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president.
Snipers and thousands of other Palestinian and US security agents have flooded the area in the huge operation to safeguard the US president's security. His talks with Mr Abbas will focus at least in part on the Palestinians' ability to handle security, says the BBC's Tim Franks in Ramallah.
Israel wants rocket attacks from Palestinian territories to stop.
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