Secretary Rice spoke to the Quartet principals this morning to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories after the convening of the newly elected legislative council.

We'll raise it with Secretary Rice, asking her to understand our situation, ... I do believe on this one the administration needs to stop taking assistance from the powerful lumber lobby.

We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs,

The situation in the occupied territories continues to be precarious,

The Syrian track is frozen, the Lebanese track is frozen and the Palestinian track is frozen. That's the situation now.

He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit of panic when he was coming off the ice. He knew that it was a serious injury and hopefully things will work out.