MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russia will not organize a planned Middle East peace conference until agreements reached in the recent talks in Annapolis in the United States are met, its foreign minister said.

""When it comes to the possible Moscow meeting, no one is opposed, but preparations must be done before a date is fixed for it,"" Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference with Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Abul Gheit.
""The most important thing is to manage to apply the agreements that were reached and not to substitute their implementation with discussions on new meetings.""
Russia has said it would organize a follow up to the Annapolis talks held in November.
At the U.S.-sponsored meeting, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to set the end of 2008 as a target date for a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement.
The first meeting between the two sides since the Annapolis conference was held Wednesday in Beit-ul-Moqaddas.
Israel's decision to expand a settlement east of Beit-ul-Moqaddas dominated the meeting between the negotiating teams headed by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and former Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei.
Lavrov said that meeting ""ended badly"".
""We share the principal that a definitive settlement in the Middle East can only be an overall settlement"", taking into account Syria and Lebanon, said Lavrov.
A vocal critic of the United States, Syria decided to attend the Annapolis conference only after Washington made a last-minute decision to include the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in talks.
The Egyptian foreign minister had welcomed Moscow hosting a follow-up Middle East peace conference in an interview published Friday.
""Russia ... plays an important role in encouraging the parties to fulfill their obligations and attain the final objective of the process -- the creation of a Palestinian state,"" the minister, who arrived in Russia on Thursday, was quoted as saying in the business daily Kommersant.
The two ministers also said during the press conference that Russia and Egypt hoped to reach a deal on civilian nuclear energy.