Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Amman Saturday for consultations with Jordanian leaders ahead of the four-way summit on Monday at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh. "The president is scheduled to have talks tonight with Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit and on Sunday with King Abdullah II," Palestinian ambassador Atallah Khairy told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). "Abu Mazen will brief Jordanian leaders on what happened and all steps taken to deal with the situation," Khairy said, referring to Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip last week and Abbas' subsequent formation of an emergency government led by Salam Fayyad. The quadruple summit at Sharm el-Sheikh is due to group Abbas, Abdullah, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Khairy said the Palestinian president was dispatching his media advisor Nabil Amr to Yemen at the start of a regional tour that would also include Saudi Arabia, which brokered the Makkah accord between Hamas and Fatah in February. "Amr will put Arab leaders in the picture of what happened in Gaza and the steps taken later by the Palestinian Authority to deal with the situation," he added.
