Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet any Hamas official during his ongoing visit in Syria, his spokesman said Sunday.
"President Abbas' program has no appointments except meeting with President Bashar al-Assad," Palestinian presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rdineh said.
Abu Rdineh highlighted that Abbas will not meet with leaders of other Palestinian factions as well.
In his talks with al-Assad, Abbas will discuss the faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the indirect peace negotiations between Syria and Israel in addition to a number of mutual issues, according to Abu Rdineh.
The talks between the two leaders will not include the efforts to make reconciliation between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah, he added.
The two movements fought against each other in the Gaza Strip in June 2007 and the fighting ended with Hamas taking over the territory, creating a political split with the West Bank.
Hamas politburo and its chief Khaled Mashaal are based in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Source:Xinhua
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