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Abbas arrives in Cairo to sign Palestinian reconciliation deal

03 May 2011 22:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo on Tuesday ahead of the signing of a unity deal between his Fatah and the Islamist Hamas movement, APA reports quoting Earth Times.
The reconciliation agreement is to be signed in Cairo on Wednesday.
The deal will end a bitter, and at times violent, feud between the two largest Palestinian parties.
It is intended to bring about the formation of an interim unity government, which will do away with the current situation where Hamas administers the Gaza Strip and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority the West Bank.
Israel rejected the deal when it was announced last week.
The Gaza Strip has been under Hamas control since June 2007. Efforts had failed over the past four years to end the divisions between the two sides.