Wednesday 29 April 2009

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Bitter disputes within Fatah prevent it from holding its sixth conference

[ 29/04/2009 - 04:07 PM ]

AMMAN, (PIC)-- Fatah sources ruled out that the sixth conference of Fatah could be held in the near future attributing this to the altercations that erupted between members of the preparatory committee on the mechanisms and the place of holding the conference.

The sources said, in a statement published Wednesday in the Saudi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, that these disputes heated after members of the preparatory committee of the sixth Fatah conference called Hakam Balawi and Nasser Yousef traded insults over the increase of the conference membership.

According to the sources, Yousef strongly refused the proposal of increasing the conference membership and insisted the committee reduce the number of members from 2,900 members to about 1,500.

The sources added that Fatah inside the 1948 occupied lands rejected this reduction and tried to raise the number of members.

They noted that Fatah conference members are also wrangling over the place of holding this conference after Jordan and Egypt refused ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's request to hold the sixth Fatah conference in their lands.

In the same context, informed sources in Fatah revealed that Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, the political chief of the PLO and the secretary-general of Fatah, called, during the meeting of the preparatory committee, for preventing Mohamed Dahlan from participating in the sixth conference.

The sources added that Qaddoumi said to Mohamed Ghoneim, the head of the preparatory committee of the sixth conference of Fatah, that Dahlan and his gang, who led Fatah to the present situation and inflicted great harm on it, must not participate in the conference.

For their part, Ahmed Al-Nasr, a Fatah central committee member, and other senior Fatah officials gave a detailed account supported by evidence about the practices of Dahlan and his followers which led to the current setback of Fatah.

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