JERUSALEM - The U.S. and
Israel agreed ahead of a three-way meeting with the Palestinians to shun any new Palestinian government that does not renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace agreements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
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The so-called Quartet of Mideast negotiators the U.S.,
European Union, U.N. and Russia has set these demands as a condition for lifting crippling international sanctions. The platform of a new Palestinian power-sharing agreement, reached in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, speaks only of "respect" for existing peace deals.
Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Olmert are to meet separately on Sunday with Secretary
Condoleezza Rice ahead of their three-way meeting on Monday. In a further indication of tensions before the meeting, Rice and Abbas canceled a press conference that had been scheduled to follow their one-on-one talks, Abbas' office said.
Before meeting with Abbas, Rice told......
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