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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Hamas: reconciliation talks between delegations, not leadership

Hamas: reconciliation talks between delegations, not leadership
Feb. 4, 2016 12:03 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 4, 2016 12:06 P.M.)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770121

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Hamas movement said in a statement on Wednesday
that no meetings between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas
leader Khalid Mashaal have been scheduled, following reports of
reconciliation initiatives.

Spokesperson of the Hamas movement, Sami Abu Zuhri, said the current talks
between rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas were only ongoing
between delegations of the two movements.

Ahmad Bahr, a member of Hamas and deputy speaker for the Palestinian
parliament, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said during a press
conference in Gaza City on Tuesday that the latest initiative for national
reconciliation hoped to establish a national unity government composed of
all Palestinian factions

He said that as soon as this government was formed, it was hoped the PLC
would convene, in what would be its first session since 2007.

Bahr said the initiative would also agree on dates for legislative,
presidential, and national council elections across the occupied Palestinian
territory, and would work toward new elections for the Palestinian National
Council (PNC), the PLO's legislative body.

At the time, he called on Fatah and Hamas to meet their "historical,
national, and humanitarian responsibilities" to reunite the Palestinians,
and applauded the upcoming meeting between the two movements in Doha this
week.

The meeting, currently scheduled for Feb. 6, was announced by Hamas official
Ismail Radwan on Saturday and is the latest in a series of attempts to
reconcile the two movements since they violently fell out with one another
in 2007.

The Palestinian leadership has repeatedly failed to follow through on
promises of reconciliation and holding of long-overdue elections. Both
movements have frequently blamed each other over these failures.

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