RAMALLAH, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- A senior Palestinian official revealed on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would make a speech before the new-elect Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on Saturday and ask Islamic Hamas movement to recognize his vision of making peace with Israel.

    The official who spoke in condition of anonymity said during the speech, Abbas would ask the 132 PLC members, most of them are members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), to accept his political program and implement the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)'s international commitments towards peace.

    Hamas won with 60 percent of the seats of the 132-member PLC in the legislative election held in the Palestinian territories on Jan. 25. But it insists not to recognize Israel or the peace agreements that the PNA had signed with it.

    Abbas, who basically recognizes the state of Israel, has a political vision, which is the same vision of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) which believes in ending the ongoing conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians peacefully.  

    The official expected that if Hamas forms a new government that adopts its political ideologies and program, then there would be a gap and a crisis between the Palestinians in the authority, the legislative and the executive.

    The sworn-in of the new-elect PLC members is expected to be done on Saturday, while the first session is scheduled to be held in both Gaza and the West Bank and PLC members would contact each other via the Video conference system.

    Hamas leader Atef Odwan said that the new Palestinian cabinet would be announced three weeks maximum after the first session of the PLC to be held on Saturday, adding that Hamas has almost finished forming the new cabinet.

    As soon as President Abbas commissions the person that Hamas would choose to form the cabinet, the movement would be able to officially announce the new cabinet, said Odwan.

    It is not known yet when Abbas would ask Hamas to form the cabinet, and it is also not clear yet who would be the person that Hamas would choose to form the new cabinet.  Enditem