Riyadh - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Riyadh on Sunday for a one-day visit to discuss with Saudi King Abdullah ways to deal with the new Israeli government, diplomatic sources said. Abbas will coordinate with the Saudi monarch a strategy to approach the new right-wing government under Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejects a "two-state solution" to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, diplomatic sources in the Palestinian embassy in Riyadh told the German Press Agency dpa.

The sources said Palestinian negotiations with Israel had reached "a dead end" after new Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman rejected the 2007 Annapolis Peace Agreement.

Abbas will also inform King Abdullah of the latest developments in the Egyptian-sponsored Palestinian reconciliation talks.

Egypt is sponsoring unity talks between Fatah and its rival Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip after ousting Fatah in 2007.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal received Abbas along with the Palestinian ambassador in Saudi, Jamal Abdul Latif al-Shubki. (dpa)