Deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya on Wednesday voiced pessimism that an inter-reconciliation agreement might be reached in Cairo on July 7.

Haneya made the remarks when visiting a tent erected near the destroyed Palestinian parliament building in Gaza to receive congratulators for the release of the Hamas-dominated parliament speaker Aziz al-Dweik from an Israeli jail on Tuesday.

"I can't hide my feelings that I'm not optimistic that the inter-dialogue will succeed after preventing al-Dweik from entering the parliament's building in Ramallah today," Haneya told reporters in the tent.

Eyewitnesses in Ramallah said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas security forces closed the doors of the parliament in Ramallah shortly before al-Dweik arrived to hold a news conference there.

Haneya added that "this is an indication that the authority in Ramallah "doesn't have any goodwill intentions towards succeeding the national Palestinian dialogue."

He added that "we are speaking frankly to our people that what is happening in the West Bank is putting so many obstacles before reaching a reconciliation agreement."

Asked about if there are any developments concerning the release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Haneya said "so far there is nothing new until now."

Egypt has invited rival Fatah and Islamic Hamas movements to resume their dialogue in Cairo on June 28, and insisted the rival groups to ink reconciliation agreement no later than July 7.

(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2009)