JERUSALEM, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli National Security Council Chairman Giora Eiland will submit the first detailed draft of a settlements evacuation plan to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon next week, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported Wednesday.

    Sparking a political storm, Sharon told Ha'aretz on Monday that he had ordered to draft plans to dismantle 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank, a move he said could take one to two years.

    Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei welcomed Sharon's plans, saying that it is "good news for us."

    "We hope that Israel will withdraw from all Palestinian areas," he told the Voice of Palestine radio Tuesday in his first public comment on Sharon's announcement.

    Officials in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said earlier Wednesday that Sharon is determined to do anything possible to pass his unilateral disengagement plan in the cabinet.

    Sharon intends to bring his plan to a vote in the cabinet within two months even if it means forming a new coalition government or going to new elections, they said.

    The officials said Sharon expects the National Union and the National Religious Party to leave the government after that and he has no doubt that Labor Party will replace them in the coalition.

    Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres on Tuesday expressed his party's full support for Sharon's plan, but downplayed the likelihood of Labor's joining the coalition government. Enditem