GAZA, April 10 -- A meeting between Palestinian National Authority (PNA) officials and U.S. Mideast peace envoy Anthony Zinni ended Wednesday evening, Palestinian officials said.

　　Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the meeting with Zinni was held in Jerusalem after Palestinian officials met for three hours with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his officein Ramallah in the West Bank.

　　Erekat said that the Palestinian delegation told Zinni that theyhope that when U.S. Secretary of States arrived in Ramallah to meetwith Arafat, Israel would withdraw its troops from around Arafat's office and compound.

　　Erekat said that the delegation insisted that the Security Council resolution 1402 must be implemented in addition to what hadbeen decided by the four leaders meeting held in Madrid earlier on Wednesday.

　　"We told Zinni that we are ready to implement the Security Council resolution," said Erekat, adding that "he main thing is to withdraw the Israeli army from all the cities and Palestinian-controlled areas were occupied."

　　Meanwhile, Colonel Mohamed Dahlan, chief of the Palestinian preventive security said that the aim of the meeting before discussing anything related to the political process is "to end theoffensive, the aggression and the suffering of our people."

　　Dahlan, who also attended the meeting said that the Palestinian delegation told Zinni that they insisted that the U.S. should forceIsrael to end its offensive and aggression on the Palestinian people.

　　He stressed that they had told Zinni about their urgent demands of ending the suffering of the Palestinian people, adding that "then we would go in details in order to reach a fair solution of the Palestinian problem."