Saudi vows to back Palestine
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia pledged continued support to the Palestinians during talks yesterday with PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas, who is on the second leg of a Gulf tour that has also taken him to Kuwait.
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Ehud Olmert said today he is willing to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state if the new government headed by president Mahmoud Abbas pledges to combat terrorism.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began crisis talks with his Hamas rivals in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, vowing to hammer out a deal on a unity government that could end an international blockade.
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Israel promised to ease conditions in the West Bank and Gaza so that Palestinians can vote for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to "treat seriously" a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Mideast War.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian leaders headed to the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday for what officials depicted as a last-ditch effort to end factional fighting and a crippling Western embargo.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals began crisis talks on Wednesday with a pledge not to leave Saudi Arabia until they had reached an agreement that would end deadly factional fighting.
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Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia vowed  Sunday to guarantee world crude supplies and said it would hold  1.5-2.0 million barrels per day of spare production in reserve.
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JERICHO, West Bank A Palestinian leader who is campaigning to take the place of the late Yasser Arafat is pledging to follow in the footsteps of the longtime leader.
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Palestinian presidential favorite Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Tuesday never to give up the late Yasser Arafat's bedrock demand that Israel recognize a "right of return" of Palestinian refugees.
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Saudi Arabia is has renewed it&#39;s pledge to &quot;fight terrorism in all its aspects&quot; in the kingdom after Monday&#39;s attack on the US consulate in Jeddah, reports the BBC.
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad and Saudi King Abdullah pledge to unite against the spread of sectarian strife.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday he would attend a conference to relaunch talks on ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a move that the United States and Israel hope will bolster the chances of its success.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions have agreed at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia to give key cabinet posts to independents, overcoming one stumbling block to a unity government, officials said on Thursday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia Feb. 7 â Leaders of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian political factions, opened a Saudi-sponsored emergency meeting in Islamâs holiest city today with promises to compromise on a new government that could salvage the dormant Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations and end a wave of violence in Gaza and the West Bank in recent months.
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Leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen vowed here on Monday that the three countries would cooperate with the international community to combat terrorism.
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Israel has pledged it would do all it can to help a smooth election to choose a successor to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, including allowing Arabs in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem to vote.