JERUSALEM, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Representatives of the quartet for Middle East peace process met at the UN office in Jerusalem Tuesday to discuss Egypt's role in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli withdrawal, the Ha'aretz daily reported.

    As a follow-up to the June 24 meeting in Taba, Egypt, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield, Russia's Mideast envoy Alexander Kalugin, European Union representative Marc Otteand Terje-Roed Larsen from the United Nations attended the meeting.

    Egypt has offered to send 150 to 200 officers and security experts on a six-month mission to help train a 30,000-strong Palestinian security force after Israel pulls out.

    The suggestion was endorsed by the quartet at the Taba meeting last month.

    The quartet representatives are then scheduled to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei Wednesday.

    Speaking after a weekly cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Qurei said he hoped Tuesday's meeting would signal the start of a greater involvement in the peace process by the quartet.

    "We hope that the quartet will be meeting more often and reinforce its supervision of the situation on the ground in order to resurrect the roadmap and the final status negotiations," he said. Enditem