Palestinian unity government due in hours -envoy
Source: Reuters
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The Palestinians could announce a national unity government as early as Monday night, led by "an independent technocrat" who was from neither the Hamas nor Fatah movements, the Palestinian U.N. observer said on Monday. The new prime minister would be selected jointly by President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and current Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's Hamas, and it would not be Haniyeh, said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian observer at the United Nations. In the new cabinet, "there will be individuals with technical skills from Hamas, from Fatah, from the other groups and independents, but it would take the form of a national unity government with a technocrat flavor," Mansour told reporters at a news conference at U.N. headquarters.
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