JERUSALEM, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The United States will not recognize a border created after a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank as Israel's permanent frontier, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday, citing its sources in Washington.

    A number of the sources had said unofficially that they believed the U.S. administration would probably support such a withdrawal, but would not recognize it, said the report.

    Ha'aretz quoted one U.S. official as predicting that the U.S. would agree to see the post-withdrawal line as a temporary border, "which would become permanent, obviously with slight changes, following future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians."

    Another source, a legal expert, was quoted as saying on Tuesday that any reasonable interpretation of international law cannot allow recognition of a border that was determined unilaterally.

    Senior U.S. administration members said in unofficial conversations that Israeli Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has not presented the administration with a detailed plan for the second withdrawal, said Ha'aretz.

    Olmert, who is on the course of form a coalition government, is due to arrive in the U.S. capital during the third week of May.

    In an interview published previously, Olmert said the aim of his planned meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush will be to secure international support for the pullout, including financial assistance.

    On Sunday's cabinet meeting, Olmert revealed that he would be swift to draw Israel's border in the West Bank since there was no partner for talks on the Palestinian side after the Hamas-led cabinet justified a suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv on April 17.

    Olmert has repeatedly voiced that Israel will not deal with a Hamas-led Palestinian government if it rejects to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace agreements.

    Olmert vowed before the March 28 election to set Israel's final borders by 2010 and the new government would be based on his so-called "convergence plan," under which Israel would withdraw isolated settlements in the West Bank but keep bigger ones.

    The United States, a member of the international Quartet which also groups the United Nations, Russia and the European Union, has been mediating over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the road map peace plan, which calls for bilateral negotiations before the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel. Enditem