If this is true, I believe it's huge. My only concern is that I can find no other source to corroborate it.

Quartet to convene Mideast peace conference in Moscow later this year

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
June 27, 2008

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996882.html

The Quartet of Middle East peacemakers decided this week to convene a regional conference in Moscow in November. The Quartet - comprising Russia, the United States, the UN and the European Union - reached the decision at a conference in Berlin on Tuesday meant to raise money for the Palestinian Authority.

A Jerusalem source said Wednesday that the conference is to provide the stage either for the signing of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement or, in a much more likely scenario, a joint statement on the course of negotiations planned for 2009.

Saeb Erekat, a senior member of the Palestinian negotiating team, said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice invited representatives from the Palestinian Authority and Israel to Washington in July in order to speed up the talks between the sides. He said that the invitation was extended during a meeting in Berlin between Rice, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Ahmed Qureia, the head of the Palestinian negotiations team, and that the Palestinians accepted the invitation.

However, a senior Israeli source said that Rice wasn't interested in a summit, but rather a routine briefing meeting in light of the fact that she will not travel to the region in July as planned.

Sources from the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Ministry insisted on Wednesday that despite internal political affairs, negotiations with the Palestinians will go on. "We're continuing to work, to raise proposals and to exchange drafts," a source said.

The Moscow conference is likely to take place at the foreign minister level, and will include representatives from several Middle Eastern countries, including Syria.