Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations

    RAMALLAH, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet on Sunday for more talks on essential final-status issues, Palestinian sources said on Saturday.

    The meeting will take place in Jerusalem and the Palestinian and Israeli chief negotiators, Ahmed Qurei and Tzipi Livni, will attend the meeting, the sources added.

    Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian negotiator, said the two sides will review their meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose country mediated the resumption of the negotiations.

    They will also discuss the Israeli obligations under the first phase of the U.S.-backed Road Map plan for peace, especially the lifting of checkpoints in the West Bank, the releasing of prisoners and stopping the settlement activities in the West Bank, according to Erekat.

    In November 2007, the two sides resumed talks on final issues, such as the status of Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugees, prisoners, water and the bordered of the future Palestinian statehood.

    However, the Arabic service of Israel's official radio reported that the Jewish state will not accept the return of the refugees to their origin homes inside its borders; it will only allow their return to the Palestinian statehood if a peace pact was reached.

    Other demands that the Palestinian side will raise in the meeting were the return of deportees, whom Israel expelled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip and Europe following 2002 Church of Nativity standoff, the lift of the blockade which Israel imposed on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip last year and the release of more Palestinian prisoners.