COPENHAGEN -- Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said he hopes that President George W. Bush will confirm on Friday that the United States is in favor of two separate states for Israelis and Palestinians, AFP reported.

"If he departs from the two-state solution which he himself proposed, that would be a great disappointment," Moeller told Danish journalists in Washington, the Danish News Agency Ritzaus said Friday.

Moeller met with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice- President Dick Cheney on Wednesday and Thursday, and was due to attend a meeting of the "quartet" -- the United States, the United Nations, the EU and Russia -- on the Middle East, before seeing Bush at the White House.

The quartet is to discuss a "road map" for a solution to the Middle East conflict which, notably, calls for an independent Palestinian state in 2005.

"It is very important for us that the White House publishes a declaration containing the same key elements as the road map," Moeller said.

Bush told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Thursday that he was committed to Middle East peace, but was not ready to forge ahead with a road map to a two-state solution.

The United States has said it wants no road map announcement ahead of Israeli elections on January 28, whereas the EU wants the plan launched as soon as possible.

Moeller said that the quartet is "99 percent in agreement" on the road map, and that there is no "strategic disagreement" between U.S. and EU.