Fatah/Hamas agreement – Daily press briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for SecGen (excerpts)

**Questions and answers

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Question:  Michèle, how do you view the agreement between the Fatah and Hamas groups?  Do you have any comment on that?

Spokesperson:  We don’t have any comment but from what I read, the agreement was already broken.

Question:  Not literally but the Israelis are against it totally.

Spokesperson:  We’ll check it for you.  We’re certainly observing the situation.

Question:  What’s the reaction to the agreement?

Spokesperson:  We don’t have a reaction to the agreement.  We are still waiting to hear more about it.

Question:  But would you encourage agreement?

Spokesperson:  Of course.  The Secretary-General has always said there is one Palestine and he sees the occupied territories as one territory.