Parliament spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Monday that the group would seek common grounds with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but reiterated its reject of interim peace accords with Israel.

Salah al-Bardaweil said that Hamas, to form a new cabinet in the coming weeks, hoped to achieve agreement with Abbas over key internal issues during a meeting between the two sides in the Gaza City later in the day.

The talks are expected to focus on the formation of a Hamas-led new cabinet, the spokesman told a local Palestinian radio.

"We will find several subjects to talk about and we will find common grounds in these issues," he said, adding that Hamas agreed with Abbas to stem out the prevalent chaos in the Palestinian territories.

Al-Bardaweil made the statements two days after Hamas formally took over the Palestinian parliament following its landslide election victory.

In a keynote speech before the newly-elected parliament on Saturday, Abbas urged Hamas, which calls for Israel's destruction, to respect previous agreements inked by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel and resort to negotiations toward peace.

But Hamas defiantly rejected Abbas' calls, saying it would not hold talks with Israel so long as the Jewish state continued occupying Palestinian land.

Al-Bardaweil reiterated Hamas' reject of previous agreements with Israel including the interim peace deal dubbed the Oslo Accords inked in 1993.

"It is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that signed the Oslo Accords with Israel, not Hamas, and it is this group that has to implement them. But it didn't get anything in return from Israel," he.

The PLO is a political umbrella grouping key Palestinian factions with the Fatah movement as its backbone.

Hamas rejects the Oslo Accords, under which Israel recognizes the PLO and permits limited autonomy of the Palestinians in return for peace.

Source: Xinhua