Ismail Haneya, prime minister of the sacked Hamas unity government, said on Monday that he intended to talk with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of its rival Fatah in Saudi Arabia, Haneya's office said.
Haneya manifested his proposal in a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Ibn Abdel Aziz, according to Haneya's office.
Since the violent seizure of the Gaza Strip in mid June, Hamas has offered several times to resume contacts, but Abbas refused to open dialogues with the Islamic movement unless it gives up the rein of Gaza it took from Abbas' Fatah.
Abbas is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, reached a key power-sharing agreement in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 8, which gave birth to the forming of the Hamas-led unity government on March 17.
Source: Xinhua
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