Mashaal to visit Cairo next week

A high ranking official at Islamic Resistance Hamas Movement has said that a Hamas delegation to be headed by Chief of the Politbureau of the Islamic Resistance Hamas Movement ,Khalid Mashaal, will proceed to Cairo next week to follow up progress made for completing the Palestinian reconciliation file with the Egyptian officials. In a press statement issued here on Wednesday, Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil voiced hopes Egypt would bring pressure on the Palestinian Authority to finnish the frozen reconciliation file on part of the palestinian authority and fatah movement, as he said. The Hamas official viewed that some Israeli and US pressures are being exercised upon President Mahmoud Abbas to dissudade him to complete the reconciliation file with Hamas movement The Hamas movement senior official further said Hamas has presented all its potentials to complete the reconciliation agreement in the evidence of its approval that Abu Mazen, would head the next government, despite differences of its programmes with Hamas” … questioning meantime “What do we offer more than that to end this situation of stalemate”. Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil added that “the responsibility of that stalemate and delay of the formation of the transitional government which was agreed upon in Doha last February, lies on the Palestinian Authority and Fatah.” He also lashed out upon the ongoing security coordination in the West Bank between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Occupation Authorities.