Exiled Hamas movement's chief Khaled Meshaal will be invited to visit Cairo on July 7, when an inter-reconciliation agreement is expected to be signed, a Saudi Arabia-based daily reported Thursday.

The Saudi Okaz Daily quoted a well-informed Palestinian source as saying that Egypt will invite both Meshaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Cairo to sign the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement.

The source told the daily that Egypt will invite early next week members of the five reconciliation talks committees to finalize the draft of the agreement before it will be signed in July.

The committees, that include representatives of all Palestinian factions, will finalize in Cairo an agreement on five basic issues, the government, the election, the security forces, the PLO and the inter-reconciliation.

However, Hamas spokesman in Gaza Fawzi Barhoum said "so far there is no official information confirming Meshaal's visit to Cairo to sign a reconciliation agreement on July 7."

Moreover, it is still early to talk about any specific date for the dialogue's end, said Barhoum, adding "The dialogue is still going on" though there are "many obstacles."

On Wednesday, Hamas delivered its vision to the Egyptian mediators and rejected to share the security services in the Gaza Strip with Abbas' Fatah movement.

Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and seized Gaza by force in 2007.Egypt has been mediating between the main factions to reach a reconciliation agreement.

According to Barhoum, any field measures the dialogue brings must be applied in the Fatah-ruled West Bank in addition to Gaza.

(Xinhua News Agency May 29, 2009)