Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet the Zionist Vice-Premier Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, the first such high-level meeting in years.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet the Zionist Vice-Premier Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, the first such high-level meeting in years, a Palestinian official said.

The meeting will focus on the prospect of resuming the so-called ‘Palestinian-Israeli peace talks’ that have been stalled since 2010, the official added on condition of anonymity.

The two men will meet either in the occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) or in the West Bank city of Jericho, the official stated.

Mofaz, head of the Kadima party, joined the coalition led by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month. Since then, he has been urging a meeting with the Palestinian president.

Abbas is expected to see if Mofaz has any new plans for reviving the peace negotiations, which broke down over disputes on the Jewish settlement activities in the West Bank and east al-Quds.

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, said the meeting will not be counted as a new round of peace negotiations, since Abbas has set the conditions for restarting the talks, which include releasing the prisoners held by the Zionist enemy since before 1994 and lifting the arms embargo against the Palestinian National Authority.