July 15, 2008	Tuesday	Rajab 11, 1429

RAMALLAH, July 14: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas next week, officials said on Monday.

Senior Palestinian diplomat Saeb Erakat confirmed that Obama would visit Abbas in the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on July 23.

“President Abbas welcomes this important visit and considers it evidence of the importance of the Palestinian issue in American foreign policy,” he said.—AFP