Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations

    RAMALLAH, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday renewed the Palestinian National Authority's (PNA) commitment to negotiations and peace process with Israel.

    As part of the commitment, Abbas said he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday while heads of the negotiation teams, former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureiand Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, will also meet Monday. "The meetings will discuss the final status issues and the vital daily life issues," Abbas told a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Ramallah.

    Abbas urged Israel to carry out the first phase of the U.S.-backed Road Map peace plan since it was the reference of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks which resumed following a U.S. initiative in November.

    The first phase, according to Abbas, is stopping the constructions of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, reopening PNA institutions in Jerusalem and ending all the measures that Israel took after the eruption of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.