Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad met with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday, PA spokesman Ghassan al-Khatib said.

The former Massachusetts governor was in Jerusalem on the second leg of a trip to strengthen his foreign policy credentials in his race to unseat Obama.

After talks with Israeli leaders, Romney met with Fayyad. He then visited the Western Wall, Judaism's most revered site.

Details of the meeting between Fayyad and Romney have not been released yet, al-Khatib said, although it is expected that they spoke about the political and economic situation of the Palestinian Authority.

In a foreign policy speech in Jerusalem, Romney voiced strong support for the alliance between the United States and Israel.