Wednesday, September 1, 2010

"Who was in the room?"

"President Obama met one-on-one with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for almost an hour today, and then met with expanded delegations for an additional half hour.

On the U.S. side, the expanded delegation included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Jim Jones, George Mitchell and David Hale, Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro, the White Houe said.

The same group with the addition of Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Jeff Feltman and minus deputy peace envoy Hale were part of the expanded U.S. delegation who joined Obama after his one-on-one meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah.

Earlier Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The White House didn't provide details on who else was in that meeting, saying it was almost entirely one-on-one.

No readout yet on Obama's meeting with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.

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