Acting Prime Minister Salam Fayyad asserted on Monday that the new government expected to be announced within the coming 24 hours will help to succeed the inter-reconciliation dialogue.

Fayyad is the one who is nominated to head a reshuffled wider government that President Abbas will form within the coming 48 hours. Fayyad is currently heading the caretaker government which was formed in June 2007.

Abbas designated Fayyad to form a caretaker government, after he deposed the national-unity government headed by Hamas movement. Abbas decision was made as Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip by force in June 200.

"The new larger government will continue its national responsibilities by easing the hardiness and the suffering of the people in Gaza," Fayyad said in a statement following his cabinet's weekly meeting.

He added that his new government "will focus on helping in reconstructing the Gaza Strip and creating the proper atmosphere to succeed the inter-reconciliation dialogue, until an agreement is reached."

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas earlier on Monday confirmed that a new government will be announced within the next 48 hours. Fayyad is apparently will be designated to form the new government.

Abbas' remarks were made during an open meeting with senior officials and members of his Fatah movement in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

"This government made so many great achievements upon the instructions of president Mahmoud Abbas to overcome the hard circumstances and ease the suffering of our people," Fayyad told his ministers.

Closed Palestinian sources to Fayyad's office had earlier said that Monday's cabinet meeting of the caretaker government might be the last one that will be followed by designating Fayyad to form the larger government.

However, the sources said that even the new large government will immediately resign as soon as an agreement is reached on forming a new national unity government that unites Gaza with the West Bank.

On May 16, leaders of rival Fatah and Hamas movement will start a fifth round of inter-reconciliation dialogue in a bid to overcome differences related to forming a government, the security apparatuses and the system of general elections.

(Xinhua News Agency May 12, 2009)