President Donald Trump will welcome Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House early next month to talk about a path to peace in the Middle East.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday that the visit is scheduled for May 3.

Trump broke with longtime US policy in February when he withheld clear support for an independent Palestine — the elusive “two state solution.”

During a news conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said, “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.”

But Trump also asked Israel to “hold off” on Jewish settlement construction in territory the Palestinians claim for their future state.

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been charged by the president to take charge of Middle East negotiations.

Kushner has known Netanyahu, a friend of his father Charles Kushner’s, since the Israeli leader once stayed at the Kushners’ New Jersey home.

With Associated Press