Posted on 03/17/2009 1:26:19 PM PDT by forkinsocket
CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt has sent a senior official to Washington to seek a relaxation of the US conditions for recognition of a Palestinian unity government including Hamas.
Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Egypt's pointman for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, was in Washington on Tuesday, an Egyptian source said, asking not to be named, amid faltering Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo.
Senior delegations from the Islamist movement Hamas, the Western-backed Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and other groups began work on March 10 in committees formed to resolve their differences.
Fatah and Hamas have been bitterly divided since Hamas, which won a majority in a 2006 parliament election, seized the Gaza Strip in a week of deadly fighting in June 2007, thus limiting Abbas's authority to the West Bank.
"Egypt is making efforts with foreign parties, notably the US administration, to obtain agreement to a compromise formula that would be acceptable for Hamas and the international community," Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine delegate Kayed al-Ghoul told AFP.
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