¡¡¡¡Special Report:  Crisis between Israel and Palestinians

    JERUSALEM, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' proposal of holding peace talks shortly after Abbas made the initiative Wednesday in Oslo.

    The Jerusalem Post cited the spokesman for Olmert as saying that no summit would take place until the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) reigns in terrorism.

    Abbas has tried repeatedly to skip the first phase of the Roadmap peace plan which obliges the Palestinians to stop terrorism, according to the spokesman.

    Abbas is currently on a European tour to appeal for financial support for the PNA. He arrived in Oslo on Tuesday evening after wrapping up a visit to Turkey, and the tour will also take him to Finland and France.

    Abbas said on Wednesday in Oslo that an international conference should be held "immediately" to help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    "An international conference should be summoned immediately, in which direct negotiations take place, on the basis of UN resolutions and signed agreements," Abbas was quoted as saying.

    Israel has frozen contact with the Hamas-led Palestinian government since it was sworn in on March 29 unless Hamas renounces violence, recognizes Israel's right to exist and accept previous deals between Israel and the Palestinians.

    Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, has committed itself to Israel's destruction and insisted on armed resistance against the Israeli occupation. Enditem