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Palestinian rivals prepare for Cairo summit
Monday November 14, 2011 08:49:42 AM,
IANS
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Gaza: Palestinian
rivals are making intensive contacts to prepare for a meeting
between their leaders, initially scheduled to take place in
Egypt's Cairo later this month, Palestinian sources said Sunday.
The contacts are being held at the highest levels, the sources
said, reported Xinhua. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will
head Fatah's delegation to meet the delegation of Islamic Hamas
movement, which is led by Khaled Mashaal.
The exact date of the meeting has not yet been set, according to
the sources.
The meeting is going to be the first since Abbas and Mashaal
signed an Egyptian-brokered agreement to reconcile and restore
political unity to the Palestinian territories in May.
Officials from Hamas and Fatah hope that the meeting will result
in common understandings.
Committees of both sides will meet before their leaders do "to
overcome obstacles on the way of reconciliation and secure the
success of the meeting and its implementation," said Moussa Abu
Marzouk, a Hamas official.
The Damascus-based official told Hamas' Al-Aqsa television in Gaza
that the two leaders will talk about forming a unity government,
stop politically-motivated arrests and lift restrictions on Hamas
in the Fatah-ruled West Bank.
The two movements failed to implement the articles of May
agreement since Abbas insisted to retain his West Bank Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad for the new government.
Abu Marzouk reiterated that Hamas will never accept Fayyad as the
leader of the upcoming unity government. Abbas appointed Fayyad as
a prime minister in the West Bank in 2007, after Hamas routed pro-Abbas
forces and ousted Fatah in a brief civil war in the Gaza Strip.
During Abbas-Mashaal meeting, names of new candidates for the
prime minister's post would be reviewed, Abu Marzouk said.
Mahmoud Al-Aloul, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, said that
progress has been made in the run-up to reconciliation.
He noted
that incitement against Fatah and Hamas figures on the media and
internal conflicts have almost vanished. "The priority is given to
the basic contradiction with the Israeli occupation."
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