Cairo to Host Hamas-Fatah Talks Soon

Source: AFP, 11-06-2008
CAIRO: Egypt will "soon" host inter-Palestinian talks between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian Ambassador to Cairo Nabil Amr said on Tuesday. Egyptian President "Hosni Mubarak accepted the request by [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas during their meeting on Monday that Cairo should host inter-Palestinian dialogue sessions soon," the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) quoted Amr as saying. The move follows Abbas' request to Mubarak that "Cairo should be the center of joint Arab efforts to end the Palestinians' internal crisis," MENA reported. Hamas' exiled political chief, Khaled Meshaal, said Monday that his Islamist movement was ready for talks with Fatah.