Secretary Condoleezza Rice will host a dinner the preceding evening in Washington, D.C., where President George W. Bush will deliver remarks.

President Bush and the Israeli and Palestinian leaders will deliver speeches to open the formal conference in Annapolis. - Wikinews

Reka Network reports that "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave the green light for Palestinians to receive 50 armored vehicles as a goodwill gesture ahead of the Annapolis conference.

"The Russian-made vehicles are to be provided to the Palestinian Authority by Jordan and are to be used around the northern West Bank city of Nablus, where several hundred Palestinian police were deployed with Israeli approval, at the beginning of November.

"The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and army officials were opposed to the deliveries, fearing the material would fall into the hands of Hamas.

"The PA received similar armored vehicles that were deployed in the Gaza Strip after the Oslo Accords of 1993. They were destroyed by the Israel Air Force following the start of the second Palesitnian uprising in 2000."

Quartet to meet before Annapolis conference

Mediators of the Middle East Quartet (US, EU, UN, Russia) will meet in Washington, DC on November 26th, one day ahead of the Annapolis conference. The conference will try and set in motion talks between the Israelis and Palestinians that will lead to the founding of a Palestinian state.

The Quartet meeting will be led by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, European Policy Chief Javier Solana and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The United States has invited more than 40 contries and internal organizations to the conference in Annapolis, Maryland on November 27th. - Source: Reka Network Israel