Islamic Hamas movement on Monday said it has several reservations and will not start inter-Palestinian dialogue unless those conditions are taken into consideration.
The Hamas movement is scheduled to hold talks on Tuesday with Egyptian officials who mediates between the Palestinian factions to launch the dialogue.
Osama al-Muzini, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said Hamas will convoy the reservations to Egypt as its leaders prepare to go to Cairo to meet the Egyptian officials.
Egypt has held a series of separate talks with representatives of all Palestinian factions in a bid to resume the inter-Palestinian dialogue and end political separation between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Palestinian National Authority-ruled West Bank.
Al-Muzini said that his movement has a veto on a technocrat government that excludes Hamas which won the parliamentary elections of 2006.
Hamas will also not allow the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to quit before its legal term ends in January 2009, which means Hamas rejects the proposal of holding early elections as a way to settle the Palestinian political crisis.
Another reservation was related to the security services, according to al-Muzini, who said that Hamas "will not accept the partition of the national issues; it is insensible to amend the (Hamas-controlled) security services in Gaza while leaving them unchanged in the West Bank."
Al-Muzini said these issues were put forward during the series of meetings between Egypt and most of the Palestinian factions. "But Hamas stance is firm; we reject those offers because they exceed the results of the elections."
He reiterated that Hamas can only accepts a national unity government.
Source: Xinhua
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