Abbas accepts Russia plan to meet Netanyahu: envoy

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has agreed on a Russian proposal for him to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a new peace push, an official said Monday. Netanyahu has said he is open to such a meeting together with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We told the Russian side today that president Abbas accepted the Russian initiative about the meeting of Abbas and Netanyahu with President Putin in Moscow," said Abed al-Hafeez Nofal, the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow.