CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have set a three-month timetable to form a unity government and organise elections, officials from both sides said yesterday.
The agreement came during a meeting late on Tuesday between Fatah’s official in charge of reconciliation affairs, Azzam Al Ahmed, and his Hamas counterpart Mussa Abu Marzuq, held at Egyptian security services headquarters in Cairo.
“We must take immediate steps to agree on the Palestinian National Council’s (PLO parliament) electoral law and set a date for elections,” Ahmed told the official Voice of Palestine radio.
“We have said that all these measures must be carried out within three months,” he added.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zohri said the two groups had decided to “finalise all reconciliation issues in three months, including that of the national unity government... and legislative and presidential elections.”
AFP
