Palestinian officials announced on Monday night that the ten-day national dialogue had failed to agree on a document of accordance, or the National Accordance, reached by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Azzam al-Ahmad, chief of Fatah movement's block in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) told reporters that the national dialogue failed to agree on the prisoners' document of national concord.
 
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also announced that the last session of the ten-day national dialogue that was held in Ramallah on Monday night failed to agree on approving the document.

The document of concord was considered by President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as his Fatah movement and other factions, excluding the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Islamic Jihad and other minor left wing parties, as a document of political program.

President Abbas opened on May 25 a national dialogue by asking Palestinian factions to accept and adopt within ten days the National Accordance filed by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, or he would put the proposal to a referendum within 40 days. The prisoners' document calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories that were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Hamas, which remains committed to the destruction of Israel, has so far refused to accept the document which is widely seen as implicit recognition of the Jewish state.

The movement, the ruling party that leads the government and the parliament, announced earlier that it boycotted the dialogue and reject holding a referendum on the document of concord in the Palestinian territories.

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and also a member in the committee of national dialogue, announced that the dialogue failed to agree on the prisoners documents.

She told reporters that President Abbas is determined to bring the issue of the document to the Palestinian public for a referendum, a question that would bring more arguments between the Hamas-led government and Abbas.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya and President Abbas spent on Monday night almost one hour on telephone discussing the current situation, sources at their offices reported.

The sources said that the phone call was very important and both men had discussed many essential issues of a common interest to the Palestinian people.

(Xinhua News Agency June 6, 2006)