The militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas wants Russia to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to start negotiations on a national unity government for post-war Gaza, a senior Hamas official told the state-run RIA news agency today after talks in Moscow. Musa Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas Politburo, met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. “We discussed issues related to Palestinian national unity and the creation of a government to rule the Gaza Strip after the war,” Marzouk was quoted as saying by RIA. Marzouk said Hamas asked Russia to encourage Abbas, who is attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, to start negotiations for a national unity government, RIA reported. Abbas heads the Palestinian Authority, which governs the occupied Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Authority was established three decades ago under the transitional peace agreement, known as […]
Source: News Beast
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