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Zoom shot of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and delegation arriving in hotel lobby, Rice shakes hands with Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator2. Cameras and photographers at photo opportunity3. Rice and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJericho, West Bank\u003cbr/\u003e1. Zoom shot of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and delegation arriving in hotel lobby, Rice shakes hands with Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator\u003cbr/\u003e2. Cameras and photographers at photo opportunity\u003cbr/\u003e3. Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shaking hands at table\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of Rice and Abbas seated for roundtable talks\u003cbr/\u003eJericho, West Bank\u003cbr/\u003e5. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walking into news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot, Abbas and Rice\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President \u003cbr/\u003e\"The Israeli prime minister, Olmert, spoke positively of the initiation of an independent and unified Palestinian state and gave positive hints as to the Arab initiative. I think that what he said on this subject is very encouraging for pushing forward the peace process. At the same time, we discussed the ceasefire in Gaza, which we also hope will include the West Bank on a mutual basis and be extended to the West Bank and Gaza.\"\u003cbr/\u003ecomprehensive ceasefire.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot, news conference\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State \u003cbr/\u003e\"The United States has made clear that we expect it to be a viable and contiguous state when it is created. Secondly, that no actions that are being taken now should prejudge the outcome of a final status agreement. That means, very clearly, that if actions are being taken now, they will not be considered by the United States to have prejudged the outcome of final status. The third point is that we have made very clear that Israel has obligations under the Road Map and that the obligations on settlements are clearly articulated in the Road Map.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Abbas and Rice shaking hands and exiting\u003cbr/\u003eGaza City, Gaza Strip\u003cbr/\u003e11. Palestinian Foreign Minister, Mahmoud a-Zahar at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mahmoud a-Zahar Palestinian Foreign Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are not believing in that such meetings, according to our previous experience, that we are going to achieve any basic demands for the Palestinian issue. On the contrary we are believing that this meeting or such meeting justify more Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mahmoud a-Zahar Palestinian Foreign Minister at podium\u003cbr/\u003e14. Israeli and US flags\u003cbr/\u003e15. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni  greets US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they walk to podiums\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cutaway, cameraman \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English)Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister \u003cbr/\u003e\"I would like also to thank the United States and Secretary for the leadership, for the policy which, on one hand says that there is no just cause for terrorism and it should be stopped, and on the other hand sending a message to the moderates saying that there is this vision of two states and saying that there is a political horizon supporting and strengthening the moderates.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State\u003cbr/\u003e\"The ceasefire now needs to be consolidated by action to make certain that it is enforced. I also appreciate the statement of restraint that the Israeli government has issued concerning the ceasefire because it is, of course, quite fragile, but we would like to see it consolidated and then extended. It was also a very positive speech by Prime Minister Olmert and, I think, a hand reaching out to a Palestinian partner I was just with, President Abbas. He is indeed a man who has been committed to a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the establishment of two states, democratic and independent living side by side in freedom.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Livni and Rice shake hands then enter building\u003cbr/\u003eGPO - AP Clients Only\u003cbr/\u003e20. Rice entering prime minister's office \u003cbr/\u003e21. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert greeting US Secretary of state upon her arrival\u003cbr/\u003e22. Olmert and Rice sitting down together, zoom into Rice\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close-up of Olmert \u003cbr/\u003e24. 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Various of Condoleezza Rice's convoy driving towards prime minister's office\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday that months of coalition talks with the ruling Hamas had hit a \"dead end\" and his aides\u003cbr/\u003esaid he was done negotiating with the Islamic militants.\u003cbr/\u003eAbbas' dramatic statement, made with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at his side, could deepen internal strife in the Palestinian territories and set the stage for new elections.\u003cbr/\u003eHamas denied the talks were in trouble and suggested Abbas was bluffing.\u003cbr/\u003eRice's hastily planned visit to Jericho and Jerusalem was an apparent attempt by the United States to use the momentum created by a five-day-old truce to renew long-stalled peace talks.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, the truce, the latest attempt to halt six years of fighting, could quickly collapse. \u003cbr/\u003eThe trip comes as the moderate Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seek ways to advance negotiations, which may sideline the democratically-elected Palestinian government headed by the militant Hamas group.\u003cbr/\u003eA leading Abbas aide said on Thursday that the Palestinian president will no longer pursue unity talks with Hamas and instead convene the supreme Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) committee to decide how to proceed.\u003cbr/\u003eAbbas, leader of the rival Fatah party, updated Rice on his efforts to set up a government acceptable to the West and Israel. \u003cbr/\u003eHamas' refusal to recognise Israel's right to exist prompted the United States, Israel and other nations to impose economic sanctions which have caused widespread duress for Palestinians in the territories.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas said he didn't think the Rice meetings would help the Palestinian cause.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our experience with these meetings and these visits are that they justify more Israeli aggression against our people,\" Zahar said at a news conference in Gaza City before the Rice-Abbas talks began.\u003cbr/\u003eAbbas and Rice held a joint news conference after meeting in Jericho.\u003cbr/\u003eAbbas said he lamented the difficulties surrounding efforts to form a joint government between the Palestinians' current Hamas rulers and Abbas's own moderate Fatah Party. Such a government is seen as key to lifting an international aid boycott of the Palestinian Authority.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have discussed our efforts to form a national unity government. We have exerted efforts we have worked in many directions but unfortunately we have hit a dead end\", Abbas said.\u003cbr/\u003eUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US hoped to accelerate efforts to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to extend the scope of a recently declared cease-fire between the two sides.\u003cbr/\u003eRice also said the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories must be eased.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a gesture of support for Palestinian aspirations, Rice said any future Palestinian state should be \"viable\" and \"contiguous\" and said no actions should be taken now to prejudge the outcome of a final peace deal. \u003cbr/\u003eThat was an apparent reference to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.\u003cbr/\u003eRice will apparently try to put US weight behind efforts to start negotiations and arrange for a speedy prisoner swap meant to bring about the release of an Israeli soldier who was captured in June by Hamas-linked militants in Gaza.\u003cbr/\u003eThe capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit sparked five months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in Gaza, which subsided on Sunday when the ceasefire took effect.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinian groups say that raid was in response to a series of deadly Israeli missile strikes on civilians in Gaza earlier that June.\u003cbr/\u003eAbbas' aides said he would decide on his next move in coming days, in consultation with the PLO Executive Committee, the Palestinians' top decision-making body.\u003cbr/\u003eHis options are limited and fraught with risk. Abbas can fire the Hamas government as a stopgap measure, but would quickly see any new government vetoed by the clear Hamas majority in parliament, or he can hold a referendum on whether to call new elections that his weakened Fatah movement might easily lose.\u003cbr/\u003eThe prospect of more political turmoil in the Palestinian territories came just as Rice was lending high-level support to renewed peace momentum, highlighted by the fresh truce on the Gaza-Israel border and a conciliatory speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this week.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Israeli prime minister, Olmert, spoke positively of the initiation of an independent and unified Palestinian state and gave positive hints as to the Arab initiative,\" Abbas said. \"I think that what he said on this subject is very encouraging for pushing forward the peace process.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRice also met with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who said that Olmert's speech was intended as a message to 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