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Palestinian unity cabinet efforts in jeopardy: Fatah
Efforts to form a Palestinian unity government, seen as key to solving an unprecedented crisis, are in jeopardy over entrenched differences with Hamas, a Fatah party spokesman said Friday. "Talk of a national unity government is not serious now," Maher Miqdad told AFP, more than two weeks after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Ismail Haniya agreed on a policy outline for the incoming government. Talks have been flung into limbo over Hamas's refusal to soften its stance by unequivocally agreeing that the future government recognize Israel and past agreements signed between the Palestinians and the Jewish state.Miqdad charged that Hamas had "reneged" on the agreement reached between Abbas and Haniya on September 11 over a political platform for a unity cabinet to replace the Hamas-led administration battling international boycott. Posted by: Fred 2006-09-30 |
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