Up Committee to attend.” The statement also affirmed the Quartet's “commitment to seize this opportunity to mobilize international support to achieve meaningful progress towards a just and lasting negotiated settlement to this conflict, and ultimately, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.” The statement followed a meeting of the Quartet leaders: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado, whose country holds the EU presidency; EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner; and Quartet envoy Tony Blair.
