Palestinian Prime Minister Resigns

World | February 15, 2007, Thursday // 00:00

Palestinian prime minister handed in his resignation during a meeting with the country's President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza City on Thursday. Ismail Haniya of Hamas will be appointed to form a new national unity government together with the President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, as agreed upon by the two rival movements last week during a summit in Mecca. Leaders of the two factions announced that they also agreed to form a government and would start the procedures, required by the constitution in order to realize these plans as soon as possible.

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