RAMALLAH, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian official ruled out on Thursday the possibility of a trilateral meeting between the Palestinians, the United States and Israel during a UN General Assembly meeting slated for mid-September.
U.S. President Donald Trump, however, is scheduled to meet with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu separately on the sidelines of the meeting, as part of U.S. efforts to revive the peace process.
President Abbas will ask Trump to clarify "his solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," and if it "includes international legitimacy and the two-state solution," Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee Jebril Rajoub said.
Abbas is expected to deliver a speech to call on the international community to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to promote the efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, Rajoub added.
Earlier, Israeli and Palestinian media reported a number of diplomatic moves between the two sides to discuss the possibility of holding a trilateral summit during the UN conference in New York.
The summit is an opportunity for the U.S. president to promote his peace initiative in the Middle East, the reports said.
On May 23, Trump pledged during a meeting with Abbas to work to resume the peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel which have been stalled since 2014.
