In response to a question on a report purporting that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns said last Monday that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud talked with Israeli President Shimon Peres on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference for Interfaith Dialogue last November, U.S. State Department Spokesman Robert Wood said, "The only thing that I can say is that during that conference there were a number of world leaders including King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, former U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli President Shimon Peres. They all participated in the session of the Conference and they attended the dinner hosted by the Secretary General of the United Nations and the meeting." In a press briefing on Thursday, the U.S. State Department spokesman said, "What I understood was that there was no bilateral meeting between the two (the King and Peres)."
