Hamas, Fatah delegates meet Senegal's Wade: media

DAKAR-Hamas and Fatah delegates have met Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade in a first round of mediation aimed at finding a common position for an eventual deal with Israel, Senegalese state media reported on Saturday. Wade said at an Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit he hosted in March that Israeli President Shimon Peres had asked him to intervene to achieve peace in the Middle East and that the Palestinians had also agreed to his mediation."The head of state of Senegal is talking with the delegates from Hamas and Fatah one after the other," Senegal's official daily Le Soleil quoted Wade's spokesman El Hadj Amadou Sall as saying of the talks, which the paper said began on Friday."The first phase is an interPalestinian phase ...(to) agree on a common position leading to peace with Israel," Senegalese state news agency APS quoted Sall as saying."At the moment he is talking in turn with delegates from Fatah and Hamas. The proper negotiations will take place in seven stages," he said.Sall was unavailable for immediate comment on Saturday.A Hamas spokesman in Gaza could not confirm the meeting."We do not have any information concerning a meeting between Hamas and Fatah in Dakar," he said.
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