By SPA,
Dakar : Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has begun talks with representatives of Hamas and Fatah, hoping to establish common ground in the Palestinian factions’ approach to Israel, Senegalese state media reported on Saturday.
Wade said at the end of an Organizations of the Islamic Conference summit that he hosted in March that Israel and the Palestinian factions had asked him to mediate between them.
“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.
Sall was unavailable for immediate comment on Saturday, Reuters reported.