Al-Quds city/Ramallah (SPA) - Israel Saturday denied a Palestinianreport that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would meet inWashington in ten days along with US administration representatives. The report had quoted Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman for PalestinianPresident Mahmoud Abbas, as saying the meeting was intended to give astronger push to the peace talks between the Palestinian Authority(PA) and Israel. However, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel laterdenied the report. "This is not true," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA in Jerusalem. The parties have been aiming at a deal paving the way for thecreation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel before US PresidentGeorge W Bush leaves the White House in January.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/571143