Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Arab League (AL) chief Amr Moussa on Tuesday to explore chances of an Arab sponsorship for the forthcoming national dialogue among Palestinian factions, Palestinian sources said on Monday.
The meeting will take place in the Jordanian capital of Amman and "Abbas will discuss the national dialogue initiative which he proposed and the role that the AL can play in this regard," said the sources.
Abbas also plans to visit Syria and Yemen which in February presented an initiative for reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. The Yemeni initiative will be part of the dialogue, according to the sources.
Abbas' Fatah movement and Hamas reached the Yemeni-brokered reconciliation deal in March but failed to implement amid disagreements over its conditions.
In June 2007, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and violently took over the Gaza Strip. Since then, Abbas banned contacts with Hamas and dismissed the Hamas-led unity government.
Earlier this month, Abbas called for a comprehensive internal dialogue among all Palestinian factions, mainly Fatah and Hamas, to end the political cleavage between the Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-dominated West Bank. Hamas showed welcome to the move.
On Sunday, an official from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) disclosed that the internal dialogue will start at the end of this month in Egypt under the sponsorship of the AL.
Source: Xinhua
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