PETRA (Jordan), May 15: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said he was ready to meet moderate Arab leaders to discuss their peace initiative but that no conditions should be set in advance.

“I invite these 22 leaders of the Arab nations that are ready to make that kind of peace with Israel to come, whenever they want, to sit down with us and start to talk and present their ideas,” Olmert said in Jordan.

“If it is difficult and they are ready to invite me to any place where the 22 will gather together, I am ready to come,” he told Nobel laureates in the ancient city of Petra before talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

“If you want to talk to us about it, we are ready to sit down and listen to you very carefully. We will have, of course, comments about it. We will exchange views,” Olmert said.

“The Arab peace initiative is very interesting,” Olmert said, but added: “We don't set conditions and I guess no one will set conditions to us.”.—AFP