Amman - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Washington still considered the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank "not consistent" with Israel's obligations under the Quartet's roadmap and urged the Jewish state to stop it. "We continue to state America's position that settlement activity should stop, that its expansion should stop and that indeed this is not consistent with roadmap obligations," Rice told a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
She held her second meeting in less than 24 hours with Abbas as a part of a shuttle between the Jordanian capital and Jerusalem, where she held another meeting earlier Monday with the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and other negotiators.
