Abbas, Fatah chief patch up differences in Tunis
AFP
Date: 06-01-06
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and Faruq Qaddumi, the head of the former ruling Fatah party, have patched up their differences, a Palestinian official said.
The two men reconciled at a meeting on Wednesday at Qaddumi's home in self-imposed exile in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, where Abbas is paying a three-day visit, Azzam al-Ahmed, head of the Fatah parliamentary group, told AFP from the city.
Abbas is head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Qaddumi is head of the PLO's politburo as well as head of the Fatah central committee.
Putting rivalry and difficulties aside, Abbas and Qaddumi initially patched things up after veteran Palestinian leader and Fatah founder Yasser Arafat died in November 2004, without fully normalising their relations.
"Their meeting, which was prepared for several months, is part of efforts to unite the Fatah leadership and consolidate inter-Palestinian dialogue," Ahmed told AFP.
Talks between the various Palestinian factions, but principally between Abbas's Fatah and the ruling Islamist movement Hamas, have sought to find a common platform to end a damaging fiscal-political crisis in the territories.
Ahmed said Abbas and Qaddumi had agreed to hold a plenum of the Fatah central committee on June 25 in Amman.
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