Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow would not go on as planned.

Abbas said that Israel asked to delay the September 9 meeting until an unspecified later date. The meeting had been proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Earlier, Abbas conditioned that Israel had to implement its commitments toward the Palestinians in order to hold a meeting with Netanyahu to discuss permanent status question. Abbas gave the remarks at a press conference in Warsaw, after meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.