Sources: Egypt intends to end its mediation in the Palestinian reconciliation
[ 25/10/2009 - 04:54 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- High-level Egyptian sources revealed Sunday that Cairo would renounce its mediation in the Palestinian reconciliation file completely and would refer it the Arab League.
The sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Egypt would ask the Arab League to convene an emergency meeting at the level of Arab foreign ministers to present the report it would prepare on the reconciliation file and the parties that obstructed the reconciliation process.
The sources pointed out that intelligence director Omar Suleiman and other Egyptian officials who were fully aware of what happened in the inter-Palestinian reconciliation talks held in Cairo would embark soon on preparing a full report in this regard especially on the efforts they made to bridge the rift between Hamas and Fatah.
In another related context, the committee of the national reconciliation stated Sunday that the elections are a national democratic demand, but the call for elections in light of the internal division is impossible.
The committee called for achieving the reconciliation first, not only because it is a national priority, but because in its absence there is no healthy environment for holding transparent and fair elections that reflect the real will of voters.
“We all know that the crisis that beset us from the first day of the division is a political crisis par excellence, not legal, and that without a political solution to this crisis, it would be impossible to hold national democratic elections,” the committee underlined.
The committee urged all Palestinian parties to move forward in the reconciliation efforts and not to make Mahmoud Abbas’s edict to hold elections an additional obstacle in the path of the national dialog.
[ 25/10/2009 - 04:54 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- High-level Egyptian sources revealed Sunday that Cairo would renounce its mediation in the Palestinian reconciliation file completely and would refer it the Arab League.
The sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Egypt would ask the Arab League to convene an emergency meeting at the level of Arab foreign ministers to present the report it would prepare on the reconciliation file and the parties that obstructed the reconciliation process.
The sources pointed out that intelligence director Omar Suleiman and other Egyptian officials who were fully aware of what happened in the inter-Palestinian reconciliation talks held in Cairo would embark soon on preparing a full report in this regard especially on the efforts they made to bridge the rift between Hamas and Fatah.
In another related context, the committee of the national reconciliation stated Sunday that the elections are a national democratic demand, but the call for elections in light of the internal division is impossible.
The committee called for achieving the reconciliation first, not only because it is a national priority, but because in its absence there is no healthy environment for holding transparent and fair elections that reflect the real will of voters.
“We all know that the crisis that beset us from the first day of the division is a political crisis par excellence, not legal, and that without a political solution to this crisis, it would be impossible to hold national democratic elections,” the committee underlined.
The committee urged all Palestinian parties to move forward in the reconciliation efforts and not to make Mahmoud Abbas’s edict to hold elections an additional obstacle in the path of the national dialog.
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