Prime Minister Ehud Barak will not be meeting right-wing Likud opposition leader Ariel Sharon on Tuesday for further discussions on forming an emergency government, his office said.
Asked about a meeting between the two leaders, a spokeswoman for Barak said: "Today no," adding that no other encounter was currently scheduled for later in the week.
Barak held talks with Sharon on Monday in a bid to broaden his narrow coalition government after announcing a "time out" in peace talks with the Palestinians after almost four weeks of deadly violence.
But the negotiations stumbled over the Likud leader's demands for the right to a veto over any resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.
Nevertheless, Israeli television reported that Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was holding talks Tuesday evening with Likud MP Meir Sheetrit -- JERUSALEM (AFP)
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