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Hamas, Fatah to open talks

Cheney meets Abbas in ME peace push

AFP, Sanaa! Jerusalem
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a Yemeni-brokered agreement on Sunday to open their first direct talks since the Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip nine months ago. Fatah parliamentary leader Azzam al-Ahmed and Hamas number two Mussa Abu Marzuk signed the so-called Sanaa Declaration in the presence of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, an AFP correspondent witnessed.
The initative aims to end the deep chasm between the two factions since I lamas routed forces loy.il to the Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Gaza in a week of deadly street battles last lune.
The plan, which calls for a
return to the political status quo that existed before Hamas's seizure of the impoverished territory — denounced as a coup by Abbas -had looked doomed just days ago.
I he two movements Hamas and Fatah have agreed to accept the Yemeni initiative as a framework for dialogue between the two movements and a return of the Palestinian situation to what it was before the events in Gaza," the declaration said.
I he text, which was read out to journalists by Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al Kurbi, said the dialogue also aimed to "reconfirm the unity of the Palestinian homeland in terms of its land, people and the Palestinian Authority."
As well as the restoration of the national unity government, which
was In power before the llamas takeover of Gaza and the reestablishment of the Palestinian leadership’s authority over the territory, the Yemeni initiative also provides for early elections in the Palestinian territories.
The two factions have been bitterly divided since Hamas gunmen drove Abbas's security forces out of Gaza, effectively cleaving the Palestinian territories into rival camps and several previous attempts to reconcile the two sides have failed.
Jn Gaza City, I lamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed the agreement to open talks but stressed that it was only a framework.
The two movements Hamas and Fatah have agreed to accept the Yemeni initiative as a framework for dialogue between the two
movements and a return of the Palestinian situation to what it was before the events in Gaza," he told AFP
That means it is a framework for dialogue and not a set of preconditions for implementation The dialogue will focus on the Palestinian situation, and not only in Gaza."
Meanwhile, US Vice President Dick Cheney met on Sunday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank, the latest stop on his Easter weekend bid to revive Middle East peace efforts.
Cheney went straight into talks with the moderate Palestinian leader after arriving in Ramallah following a string of meetings with senior Israeli officials during which he also discussed the Jewish state's arch foe Iran.