Occupied Palestine, 2006/09/12, IRIB

Palestinian senior officials agreed Monday to create a national unity government.

President Mahmud Abbas will dissolve the current government within the next 48 hours and assign Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas with forming a new cabinet, officials said after the deal was announced.

"President Abbas will be issuing a presidential decree within the next 48 hours to dismiss the current government and charge a new Prime Minister" to form a new cabinet, Abbas Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said.

"Current Prime Minister Ismail Haniya will be charged ... with forming a national unity government," a senior official said on condition of anonymity.

The 43-year-old Haniya will have five weeks to form a new government once he is officially charged with doing so.
 
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