Palestinian chief negotiator Erakat quits
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who presided over several rounds of peace talks with Israel, tendered his resignation on Saturday amid deadlock in re-launching negotiations, an official source said.
Hamas will not take part in this election. We will not give it legitimacy. And we will not recognize the results 
Meanwhile, President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority plans to hold presidential and legislative elections before September, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday.
"The Palestinian leadership decided to hold presidential and legislative elections before September," senior Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo told reporters. "It urges all the sides to put their differences aside," he said, referring to a bitter rivalry between Abbas's West Bank-based government and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip.
It was not clear whether Hamas would take part in any ballot.
Hamas Islamists who rule the Gaza Strip rejected a call for new Palestinian elections made by Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas.
"Hamas will not take part in this election. We will not give it legitimacy. And we will not recognize the results," said spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.
Previous presidential and parliamentary elections were postponed because the rival groups were unable to reach a reconciliation deal.
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