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Hamas: No excuse for Fatah following Yemeni initiative

[ 19/03/2008 - 06:26 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Wednesday reiterated its readiness to start dialogue with Fatah faction to end the inter-Palestinian rift on the basis of the Yemeni initiative. Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, said that his Movement was ready to discuss all issues at the dialogue table, hoping that the PA presidency would reciprocate. He said that Yemeni foreign minister Abu Bakr Al-Kurbi's statement that there was no difference between Hamas and Fatah over the Yemeni initiative meant that there was no "excuse" for Fatah to continue refusing dialogue with Hamas. The spokesman expressed his Movement's regret that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and his entourage continue to issue "disappointing" statements that affirm their non-seriousness in dialogue. He quoted the latest such statement for Nabil Amre, the PA chief's advisor, that Abbas was still insisting on his conditions for starting any dialogue with Hamas. The Hamas Movement called on Fatah to immediately sit at the dialogue table on the basis of the Yemeni initiative and to discuss all its points away from pre conditions and slogans.