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Fatah, Hamas leaders to resume dialogue in Qatar on Monday

Xinhua, February 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

The second session of internal dialogue between leaders of Islamic Hamas movement and President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah Party will be held in Qatar on Monday, a senior Fatah official said Saturday.

Amal Hammad, member of Fatah Central Committee in Gaza, told Xinhua that the second session of dialogue with Hamas leaders will discuss the mechanisms of implementing the internal Palestinian reconciliation deals and understandings.

She said that the second session will be a continuation to what had been debated during the first session of dialogue held in Doha on Feb. 7.

"Over the past few days, Fatah leadership held intensive debates on what had been discussed with Hamas leaders in the first session of dialogue," said Hammad, who declined to give more details on what Fatah leadership had decided.

However, she stressed that her party is committed to the previous reconciliation deals and understandings reached in Cairo in 2011 and in Doha in 2012.

Meanwhile, Ismail Radwan, a senior Gaza Hamas leader said in a press statement that the two groups will discuss in Doha on Monday a clear time schedule for implementing the previous deals and understandings.

"The discussion in the next session will also focus on the guarantees that each group will be committed to in order to end the internal split and implement the reconciliation agreements and understandings," he said.

He expressed hope that this time will be able to achieve real reconciliation and end the internal Palestinian split, adding "this time, I believe there us an available opportunity to achieve full Palestinian unity."

On Wednesday A senior official in President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah Party announced that his groups reached a "tentative agreement" with Islamic Hamas movement on forming a unity government.

Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member, told Xinhua on telephone that the preliminary agreement was reached during the two-day dialogue held in Qatar between leaders of the two rival groups in Feb. 7.

"According to the agreement, a unity government is formed in parallel with issuing a presidential decree that sets up a specific date for holding the presidential and parliamentary elections within six months to one year," said Zaki.

He added that contacts on high levels are continuing between the leaderships of the two groups in order to reach a final understanding on the mechanisms of implementing the agreement.

"The current contacts will soon lead to setting up a new date for holding another round of dialogue inDoha to finalize the understanding and agree on all items and clauses related to forming the unity government," said Zaki. Endit