Palestinian resistance group Hamas has urged Russia to strain Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas into negotiating the formation of a nationwide unity authorities for post-war Gaza, a senior Hamas official advised the RIA state news company following talks in Moscow.
Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas politburo member, met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow.
“We discussed issues related to Palestinian national unity and the creation of a government that should govern the Gaza Strip after the war,” Marzouk was quoted as saying by RIA.
Marzouk mentioned that Hamas had requested Russia to encourage Abbas, who’s attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, to begin negotiations a couple of unity authorities, RIA reported.
Abbas is head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the governing physique of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The PA was arrange three many years in the past below the interim peace settlement referred to as the Oslo Accords and workouts restricted governance over elements of the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians need because the core of a future impartial state.
The PA, managed by Abbas’ Fatah political faction, has lengthy had a strained relationship with Hamas, which runs Gaza, and the 2 factions fought a short battle earlier than Fatah was expelled from the territory in 2007.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed sturdy opposition to the PA being concerned in working Gaza.
Source: www.dailysabah.com