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Mahmoud Abbas begins talks to form Palestinian
national government
Saturday April 27, 2013 07:55:14 PM,
IANS
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Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began discussions Saturday to
form a national government, reported Xinhua citing the official
Wafa news agency.
The government would be formed in accordance with deals brokered
between Abbas' Fatah party and Hamas in Doha and Cairo in the past
couple of years, Abbas said in a statement.
The government is supposed to rule the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip and to prepare for holding general elections, including
polls within the bodies of Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), he said, calling on all Palestinian factions to cooperate
with the formation of the government.
Abbas also said the government would be a technocratic interim
body comprising independent figures.
Salah Al-Bardawil, a spokesperson for Hamas, however, said the
Islamic movement is unaware of Abbas' efforts to form the
government.
Al-Bardawil said Hamas would welcome the move only if the national
reconciliation was achieved as "one package" that settles all
outstanding issues.
The Gaza Strip has been controlled by Hamas since it routed pro-Abbas
forces in 2007.
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