US President George W Bush has arrived in Kuwait after rounding off his trip to Israel and the West Bank with a promise to return in May.
He is also due to visit the Gulf Arab states of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Analysts expect his talks to dwell on containing Iran's growing influence.
He ended the first leg of his tour with a visit to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and Christian sites by the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.
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'Chance for peace'
He says the US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear programme, released at the end of last year, undermined Mr Bush's policy of isolating Iran.
The document said Iran's military nuclear research effort had stopped, although the Bush administration and key allies said Iran still posed a threat because of its ongoing uranium enrichment programme.
The Saudi monarch King Abdullah now wants to pursue different methods of containing the Iranian threat from those favoured by Washington, says our correspondent.
During his three-day tour of Israel and the West Bank, Mr Bush made what correspondents described as some of the strongest statements to date on the need for a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
He called for an end to the Israeli occupation of land seized in 1967 and he said he believed a peace deal could be signed by the end of this year, Israel's 60th anniversary, before he leaves office in 2009.
"There's a good chance for peace and I want to help you," Mr Bush was quoted by AP news agency as telling Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres at Tel Aviv airport as left on Friday.
Concluding his first presidential visit to the Holy Land, Mr Bush visited a number of Christian sites, including the Sea of Galilee and the Church of the Beatitudes and Capernaum.
He also rekindled an eternal flame and laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, which he first visited the memorial in 1998 as governor of Texas.
Wearing a black skullcap, he said the museum was a "sobering reminder that evil exists and a call that when we find evil we must resist it".
(BBC)
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