Egypt’s Mursi hosts ‘reconciliation talks’ between Meshaal, Abbas
Wednesday, 09 January 2013
Mursi’s Cairo office said Abbas and Meshaal will first
"meet Egypt's intelligence chief before holding a three-way meeting with
President Mursi." (Courtesy: AP)
Cairo will be the setting on Wednesday of a meeting between
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud
Abbas, and Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal.
Mursi’s Cairo office said Abbas and Meshaal will first “meet Egypt's intelligence chief before holding a three-way meeting with President Mursi,” AFP news agency quoted presidential spokesman Yasser Ali as saying.
The meeting will be the first between Abbas and Meshaal hosted by the Egyptian president since he was elected in June 2011.
Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in charge of reconciliation efforts between his Fatah party, of which Abbas is head, said Abbas was traveling to Egypt at Mursi’s invitation to discuss the subject.
Meshaal and aides arrived in Cairo from Doha on Tuesday for a visit of several days, the official MENA news agency said.
Hamas and Fatah had been at loggerheads since the Islamist movement seized control of Gaza in June 2007, following its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections the previous year.
Under Egyptian mediation, the two groups reached a unity agreement in April 2011, but the main provisions of that deal have so far not been implemented.
Mursi’s Cairo office said Abbas and Meshaal will first “meet Egypt's intelligence chief before holding a three-way meeting with President Mursi,” AFP news agency quoted presidential spokesman Yasser Ali as saying.
The meeting will be the first between Abbas and Meshaal hosted by the Egyptian president since he was elected in June 2011.
Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in charge of reconciliation efforts between his Fatah party, of which Abbas is head, said Abbas was traveling to Egypt at Mursi’s invitation to discuss the subject.
Meshaal and aides arrived in Cairo from Doha on Tuesday for a visit of several days, the official MENA news agency said.
Hamas and Fatah had been at loggerheads since the Islamist movement seized control of Gaza in June 2007, following its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections the previous year.
Under Egyptian mediation, the two groups reached a unity agreement in April 2011, but the main provisions of that deal have so far not been implemented.
Labels: Diplomacy, Egypt, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Authority
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