US Secretary of State Colin Powell is to meet officials from the UN, EU and Russia in a bid to get the Mideast roadmap to peace back on track.
The talks will take place in Aqaba, the Jordanian resort where President George W. Bush last week met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Mr Mahmoud Abbas to launch the peace plan.
The tentative date for Mr Powell to hold the meeting is June 22nd, coinciding with a World Economic Forum meeting at the Red Sea resort - but no final arrangements have been made.
He will be joined by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Senior EU officials have also been invited.
The group, known as a Quartet, devised the roadmap that calls for an end to 33 months of conflict, establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005 and other measures designed to settle the conflict.
Meanwhile, a US State Department official said today the US envoy Mr John Wolf will leave for the Middle East this weekend to try to save Washington's peace plan.
"We will go straight to Jerusalem and have a full range of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders," he added.
It will be Mr Wolf's first trip to the Middle East since US President George W. Bush asked him to take on the assignment.
Agencies