Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in Paris Sunday he is prepared to release more Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorists as another goodwill measure for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The proposal was the latest in a long string of "goodwill" measures since he took office, including freeing hundreds of terrorists, allowing the PA to deploy armed forces in major Arab cities and removing more than 100 security roadblocks and checkpoints in Judea and Samaria.

The Prime Minister, attending the launch of the Mediterranean Union (MU), also said he hopes that Syrian-Israel talks through Turkish mediators "soon become direct contacts."