RAMALLAH, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to visit Syria but will not meet his exiled Hamas rival, an official from Abbas' Fatah party said Saturday.
Abbas will not meet Hamas' politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in his planned visit to Damascus, said Jamal Muhissen, a member of Fatah's Central Committee.
"If Hamas had signed the reconciliation deal, there would have been meetings between the two sides," Muhissen added, referring to an Egyptian proposal to reconcile Hamas and Fatah.
The Islamic Hamas movement, which took over Gaza by force in 2007, raised reservations on the Egyptian offer to restore political unity to Gaza and the Fatah-ruled West Bank.
Earlier, Palestinian sources said that Abbas will sit with Mashaal in a meeting sponsored by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Source: Xinhua.
Link: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/09/content_12782274.htm.
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