Arab League (AL) chief Amr Moussa has pledged Arab support for Egypt's mediation between rival Palestinian factions, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported Thursday.
Moussa made the pledge at a joint press conference here Wednesday night with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal who chairing the current AL foreign ministerial session, after an extraordinary Arab foreign ministers meeting on Israeli-Palestinian fighting in Gaza.
Arab foreign ministers have fully authorized Egypt to continue the mediation to solve the Palestinian-Palestinian divide and to contact all parties concerned. Moussa was quoted by MENA as saying.
Stressing that Cairo's mediation efforts did not fail, the AL chief vowed that the next few weeks will witness great activity in the Palestinian reconciliation sphere.
He further explained that many elements and issues led to the postponement of the inter-Palestinian dialogue, but "the point that all agree upon is that Egypt continue with its mediation efforts."
For his part, Faisal also highlighting the importance of the Egyptian mediation, saying that all Arab countries have reiterated their trust in and appreciation for Egypt's relentless efforts in solving the Palestinian problem.
He, meanwhile, called for offering any kind of possible assistance that Egypt sees necessary, stressing that if Palestinians do not find a solution to their problems with Egypt, any other effort will fail.
A statement was issued late Wednesday after the emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers, calling on rival Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah to work together for the national unity of the Palestinians.
The two Palestinian movements should take part in the ongoing efforts by parties concerned to help reach Palestinian national reconciliation, said the statement.
Hamas and Fatah have been trading politically motivated abductions against their dissidents since Hamas seized the Gaza Strip by force in mid June of 2007.
In early November, Hamas thwarted the Egyptian initiative to hold an inter-Palestinian reconciliation dialogue that was due to start on Nov. 10 in Cairo, saying it can not sit with Fatah while its supporters and members in the West Bank face a Fatah-led clampdown.
Source: Xinhua
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