US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that an agreement has been reached between the Israelis and Palestinians for the basis to resume Middle East peace talks.
It follows a stalemate of almost three years.
"I'm pleased to announce that we've reached an agreement that establishes a basis for resuming final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis," Mr Kerry told reporters in Amman, Jordan.
"This is a significant and welcome step forward. The agreement is still in the process of being finalised so we are absolutely not going to talk about any of the elements now."
John Kerry meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank Secretary of State Kerry also said that Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat and his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni would meet him in Washington "to begin initial talks within the next week or so".
The announcement came at the end of four days of intense diplomacy by Mr Kerry as he consulted Israeli and Palestinian leaders from his base in the Jordanian capital.
Talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have been frozen for three years, after Israel refused to agree to a new suspension of settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.
In his brief comments to the press, Mr Kerry praised the courage of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mr Kerry is hoping to get Israel-Palestine peace talks back on track He said: "No one believes the long-standing differences between the parties will be resolved overnight or just wiped away. We know that the challenges require some very tough choices in the days ahead.
"Today, however, I am hopeful. I am hopeful because of the courageous leadership by President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Both of them have chosen to make difficult choices here and both of them were instrumental."
President Abbas' office said there had been "progress" towards resuming peace talks with Israel in the meeting with Mr Kerry.
But a presidency spokesman stressed there were still "specific details that need to be resolved," without saying what these were.
An Israeli official said if the peace negotiations with Palestinians did resume, they would take months.
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