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Egypt invites Hamas to attend dialog sessions next Wednesday

Saturday 21-February-2009

GAZA (PIC)– The Hamas Movement said Saturday that it has received an official invitation from Egypt to participate in the inter-Palestinian dialog sessions to be held on the 25th of this month highlighting its keenness to render the dialog successful.

In a press release received by the PIC Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stressed the need to get all political prisoners released from PA jails in order to create a climate for success.

For his part Hamas MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil asserted that his Movement was ready for national dialog in Cairo and would go to that dialog with “open hearts”.

He stressed in a press release that a suitable atmosphere must prevail before the initiation of the dialog in order to ensure its success pointing to Hamas meetings with Fatah in Cairo over the past few days in which ending media campaigns and releasing detainees were discussed.

Hamas also underlined in another statement from Damascus received by the PIC that it believes that the real and serious dialog is the only way to achieve a national reconciliation adding that it always called for developing a solid ground for the dialog so as to achieve its intended objectives.

The statement called for releasing the political prisoners in PA jails as a starting point for the success of dialog.

In another context the statement pointed out that Hamas upholds its demands regarding the prisoner swap deal reiterating its rejection of linking the release of the Israeli soldier to the truce issue.
 
It highlighted that any talks about the swap deal should start from the point reached not from the starting point.

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