Palestinian Authority Chief and Hamas Leader are to meet in Cairo on November 24 for new reconciliation talks.

Palestinian Authority Chief and Hamas Leader are to meet in Cairo on November 24 for new reconciliation talks.

"There is agreement on the date of November 24" for the high-stakes meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, a member of Abbas' entourage , told AFP on a visit to the Tunisian capital Friday.

An official in Abbas' Fatah movement, Azzam al-Ahmad, had said Thursday that Abbas and Meshaal would meet before the end of the month, without specifying the date.
He said the meeting would focus on "Palestinian unity, future Palestinian strategy, the Palestine Liberation Organization and future prospects."
Hamas is not a member of the Fatah-dominated PLO.

Fatah signed an unexpected reconciliation deal with Hamas in May under which they were to have set up a caretaker government of independents to prepare for elections within a year.

But the agreement has never been implemented, with both sides bickering over the composition of the interim government and who should head it.