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"10/10/2009 A Hamas delegation is to meet Egyptian officials in Cairo on Saturday to try to set a new date for the signing of a Palestinian unity deal, a spokesman for the Islamic resistance movement said.
The team led by exiled senior political leader Mussa Abu Marzuk is to hold talks with Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman on "a new, appropriate date for the new session of inter-Palestinian dialogue," Sami Abu-Zuhri told AFP. "The atmosphere is not right for the signing of an accord," he said.
Hamas has asked Egypt to delay the signing of the deal which Cairo as mediator had announced for later this month, a source within the Islamist group said on Wednesday.
Egypt had announced at the start of the week that bitter rivals Hamas and the mainstream Fatah party of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would travel to Cairo to sign the long-delayed reconciliation deal on October 25-26.
The postponement was requested because of the controversial decision by the Palestinian delegation at the UN Human Rights Council to drop its backing for an immediate vote on a damning report on the Gaza war, the Hamas source said........"
"10/10/2009 A Hamas delegation is to meet Egyptian officials in Cairo on Saturday to try to set a new date for the signing of a Palestinian unity deal, a spokesman for the Islamic resistance movement said.
The team led by exiled senior political leader Mussa Abu Marzuk is to hold talks with Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman on "a new, appropriate date for the new session of inter-Palestinian dialogue," Sami Abu-Zuhri told AFP. "The atmosphere is not right for the signing of an accord," he said.
Hamas has asked Egypt to delay the signing of the deal which Cairo as mediator had announced for later this month, a source within the Islamist group said on Wednesday.
Egypt had announced at the start of the week that bitter rivals Hamas and the mainstream Fatah party of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would travel to Cairo to sign the long-delayed reconciliation deal on October 25-26.
The postponement was requested because of the controversial decision by the Palestinian delegation at the UN Human Rights Council to drop its backing for an immediate vote on a damning report on the Gaza war, the Hamas source said........"
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