(IsraelNN.com) American officials say the summit expected to take place in three or four weeks.

Rice said the meeting would be a prelude to the resumption of final settlement negotiations. She told a press conference in Luxor, Egypt that there are a number of issues, some old, some new, that will have to be resolved if there is to be a Palestinian state.

Rice added that the U.S. does not want to rush formal negotiations before things are fully prepared.

The American secretary of state met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and is in Riyadh where she held talks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

A press conference with her Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al Faisal is slated forlate Tuesday before the secretary of state heads to Kuwait and a meeting with the foreign ministers of the six Gulf cooperation council member states. The subject there will be raising support for the U.S. president's surge strategy in Iraq.