Abbas Spokesman Rules Out Meeting With Hamas In Syria
Saturday July 5th, 2008 / 20h33
AMMAN (AFP)--Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas doesn't plan to meet with rival leaders of Hamas or other Palestinian factions based in Damascus when he visits Syria on Sunday, his spokesman said. "There are no arrangements for such any meeting with Hamas leaders or others," Nabil Abu Rudeina told reporters in Jordan on Saturday. "The president will travel tomorrow (Sunday) to Syria...to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian track of the Middle East peace process and other issues of common interest" with Syrian President Bashar Assad, he said. Last month Abbas called for talks with Hamas, which ousted his Fatah loyalists from the Gaza Strip in bloody clashes in June 2007. Abu Rudeina said the initiative "is still on the table...We are ready if Hamas is ready. So far, we didn't receive a clear 'yes' from Hamas." In June, Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal said his movement was willing to hold reconciliation talks with Fatah. Meanwhile the U.N. coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Robert Serry, met Abbas in Jordan and urged Palestinian reconciliation. "We very much hope the Palestinian reconciliation...will take place, because the longer it doesn't take place the more difficult it becomes to bring the West Bank and Gaza together again under one legitimate Palestinian authority," said Serry. "I think the president has taken some important steps, the U.N. is very supportive of it," he added. Abbas and Meshaal last met in the holy city of Mecca in February 2007, when Saudi Arabia brokered an agreement between Fatah and Hamas that led to the formation of a Palestinian unity government which later collapsed. Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=oLhlF1Swjpe9PDvXCtID2A%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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