UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he had no plans to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh during his Middle East tour. “I will be meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas and other members of the cabinet. At this time I will say that my itinerary schedule at this time does not include my meeting with Prime Minister Haniyeh,” he told a news conference in Cairo. Ban said he might also meet the Palestinian ministers of finance and foreign affairs, either with Abbas or separately. The two ministers are independent of both Hamas and of Abbas’s secular Fatah movement.