RAMALLAH, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement will not hold any discussions with rival Hamas unless the Islamic movement accepts an Egyptian-drafted offer for national Palestinian reconciliation, a senior official said.

    "Once Hamas signs the Egyptian paper, we would be ready to sit with them on any table, on any level and in any place," Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah official, told Xinhua.

    His remarks followed statements by Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal that the circumstances are suitable for reconciliation and that some Arab countries should arrange meetings between Hamas and Fatah.

    Hamas, which seized Gaza by force in 2007, had rejected the Egyptian proposal and raised reservations concerning elections and the reform of Palestine Liberation Organization as the two issues appeared on the paper in the long-term measures to boost the reconciliation.

    Fatah accepted the document and stressed that Egypt, which hosted a series of inter-Palestinian dialogue last year, would be the only mediator to broker a power-sharing pact between Hamas and Fatah.

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