GAZA, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is set to ask Egyptian mediators to postpone the final round of inter-Palestinian dialogue scheduled for late July, a Fatah spokesman said on Tuesday.
Abbas wants consultations with the Hamas movement to be held after the Fatah party conference which is due to go ahead on August 4.
"Abbas will visit Cairo on July 15 to change the date of the national dialogue to leave a considerable interval of time between dialogue and the conference," Mahmoud Alul said.
The Hamas and Fatah movements, the largest political organizations in Palestine, split in June 2007 when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip and pushed the Fatah movement out of the enclave of 1.5 million. Hamas has since remained in power in Gaza, independent of the officially recognized government of Fatah in the West Bank, which is headed by Abbas.
