Palestinian officials announced on Monday night that the ten-day
national dialogue had failed to agree on a document of accordance,
or the National Accordance, reached by Palestinian prisoners in
Israeli jails.
Azzam al-Ahmad, chief of Fatah movement's block in the
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) told reporters that the
national dialogue failed to agree on the prisoners' document of
national concord.
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also
announced that the last session of the ten-day national dialogue
that was held in Ramallah on Monday night failed to agree on
approving the document.
The document of concord was considered by President Mahmoud
Abbas, as well as his Fatah movement and other factions, excluding
the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Islamic Jihad
and other minor left wing parties, as a document of political
program.
President Abbas opened on May 25 a national dialogue by asking
Palestinian factions to accept and adopt within ten days the
National Accordance filed by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
jails, or he would put the proposal to a referendum within 40 days.
The prisoners' document calls for the establishment of an
independent Palestinian state on the territories that were occupied
by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Hamas, which remains committed to the destruction of Israel, has
so far refused to accept the document which is widely seen as
implicit recognition of the Jewish state.
The movement, the ruling party that leads the government and the
parliament, announced earlier that it boycotted the dialogue and
reject holding a referendum on the document of concord in the
Palestinian territories.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
(PLC) and also a member in the committee of national dialogue,
announced that the dialogue failed to agree on the prisoners
documents.
She told reporters that President Abbas is determined to bring
the issue of the document to the Palestinian public for a
referendum, a question that would bring more arguments between the
Hamas-led government and Abbas.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya and
President Abbas spent on Monday night almost one hour on telephone
discussing the current situation, sources at their offices
reported.
The sources said that the phone call was very important and both
men had discussed many essential issues of a common interest to the
Palestinian people.
(Xinhua News Agency June 6, 2006)
