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Palestinian leadership meets as dispute goes into overtime

AFP, Ramallah, West Bank
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his prime minister Ahmed Qorei were meeting yesterday in a bid to resolve a dispute over the formation of a new government that has already dragged into overtime.
Arafat was chairing the central committee meeting of the mainstream Fatah movement in the West Bank town of Ramallah in a bid to finally break the deadlock over the choice of an interior minister.
The term of office for an emergency cabinet which has been headed by Qorei for the past month expired at midnight Tuesday but Arafat has asked the former speaker of parliament to stay at the helm of a caretaker government.
The pair have been at loggerheads for several weeks over Qorei's choice of Nasr Yussef as interior minister, in an
echo of a dispute which helped bring down the previous premier Mahmud Abbas.
Qorei sees the appointment as vital if he is to come to grips with the security situation in the Palestinian territories, but Arafat is still smarting from Yussef's refusal last month to join the emergency cabinet.
Abbas, who doubled up as interior minister during his four-month term of office, quit in early September after repeatedly clashing with Arafat as he sought to wrest control of the security apparatus away from the veteran leader.
Central committee member Abbas Zaki said that the interior ministry issue would be the focus of Wednesday's meeting.
"Several options will be examined but apart from this (interior minister) problem, the government is ready," Zaki told AFP.
The US State Department said overnight that Qorei must be given control by Arafat over all the security forces.
"Our view continues to be that the Palestinian prime minister must have control of all the security forces, and that any new cabinet must make clear its opposition to all forms of terrorism," said deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli.
The new prime minister must also "take tangible to steps to see that terrorists and military organizations not under (Palestinian Authority) control ... are disarmed and dismantled," he said.
Sharon, who returned overnight from a trip to Moscow, had planned to meet Qorei "within days" but the prospect of a resumption of talks has been pushed back by the failure of the Palestinians to form a government.