Mubarak offers Cairo for unity talks

President Hosni Mubarak offered on Friday to host unity talks between Palestinian Hamas and Fatah leaders.

In an interview for Saturday's edition of the Egyptian weekly al-Osboa, Mubarak said he wants peace between the Palestinians.

``I want this language of violence to stop,'' Mubarak was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency.

``Peace could be achieved on the basis of international resolutions and agreements that demand the establishment of Palestinian state.''

Ayman Taha, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told the al-Jazeera tv that Hamas Political Bureau Chief, Khaled Mashaal, was ready to accept Mubarak's invitation to an ``unconditional dialogue.''

``We as Hamas have nothing against sitting in Egypt for dialogue and to end all our differences with our brothers in Fatah,'' Taha told al-Arabiya.

But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's representative in Egypt, Nabil Shaath told the Associated Press that Fatah has made no decision on the invitation.

Shaath said Abbas will head to Egypt on sunday and would talk more there about Mubarak's offer.

The last time Hamas and Fatah met for talks in Cairo was in Feb. 2005.

Earlier this month, Gaza-based Palestinian Premier Ismail Haniyeh called for talks with Egypt and Fatah, to work out a new shared arrangement for Gaza's border crossings.

Accordind to AP, Haniyeh at the time suggested Hamas would be prepared to cede some control to the Abbas government in the West Bank.

In Syria Friday, Palestinian resistance movements called on the two Palestinian groups to begin dialogue and end their power struggle.

A statement at the end of the three-day National Palestinian Conference of opposed to peace with Zionist regime and stressed the need for Palestinians to unite in the face of the worsening Gaza situation.

Dialogue is the only way to solve inter-Palestinian differences, the groups said.