Updated at: 0703 PST, Saturday, October 31, 2009
ABU DHABI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived late Friday in the United Arab Emirates where she is due to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas ahead of travelling to Israel, media said.Clinton, who flew in to Abu Dhabi from Pakistan, is hoping to revive the moribund peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. Her visit follows a mission to the region by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell. She is due to meet Abbas on Saturday in the Gulf state and later in the day will head to Jerusalem where she is due to hold talks on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Clinton last week gave President Barack Obama a downbeat report on the US administration's frustrated efforts to forge Middle East peace.Obama has made the issue a cornerstone of his foreign policy, and cajoled Netanyahu and Abbas into joining him at a summit last month in New York.The US president has been trying to get Netanyahu's hawkish government to agree to a complete freeze on settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and to convince Arab states to make conciliatory gestures towards Israel.On Monday, Clinton will meet Arab foreign ministers in Morocco.
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