Hamas was told during reconciliation negotiations with Fatah that it would have to abide by international law and United Nations resolutions on talks with Israel as part of a unity government, Palestinian billionaire Munib Masri said.
Hamas doesn’t have to recognize Israel even if it is part of the unity government, said Masri, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Palestine Central Council, which helped mediate the deal.
Hamas hasn’t yet decided on these issues “and it will become clearer in the next two days,” Masri said in a phone interview. “However, they took a very important step in that they will not take any unilateral decisions and will only act within a national plan that sets policy decisions.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, which governs the West Bank, reached an understanding on April 27 aimed at ending a nearly four-year rift and paving the way for national elections and a unity government with the Islamic Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-01/hamas-agrees-to-abide-by-un-resolutions-regarding-israel-under-fatah-pact.html
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