RAMALLAH, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to attend a new round of talks on forming a coalition government due to be held in the Gaza Strip Sunday afternoon, a Palestinian lawmaker said.

    Mustafa al-Barghouti, also the chief of National Initiative Party, said that Abbas and a number of leaders from the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) would take part in the meeting. Al-Barghouti expressed hope that the new round of talks would speed up the process of forming a coalition.

    "The national-unity government is the only way out of the crisis," he said, adding that today's intensive talks will discuss ways of speeding up the formation of the coalition.

    He disclosed that the coalition would take its vision from the Prisoners' Document of National Accordance which was drawn up by leaders of Palestinian factions jailed in the Israeli prisons.

    The plan, agreed by Palestinian factions including Hamas in late June, calls for a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel. Enditem