Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - The one-day meeting of the Middle East Quartet ended in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday with announced plans to stick to the Annapolis process, maintain Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and to hold a meeting on the Middle East peace process in Moscow next spring.

The quartet, which is comprised of the EU, the UN, Russia and the US issued a two-and-half- page statement following their meeting with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that emphasized that direct bilateral Israeli-Palestinian negotiations should be continued and that an agreement will only be announced when all issues are agreed on.

The statement said that all participants in Sharm el-Sheikh meeting agreed on "the need for continuous, and uninterrupted, bilateral negotiations; the principle that nothing would be considered agreed until everything is agreed; the need to reach a comprehensive agreement addressing all issues, as agreed at Annapolis, rather then just announce agreement on selected issues in isolation." (dpa)