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FYI...a national program and a national plan

Palestinian PM holds talks with Islamic groups

Qureia arrived in Gaza under heavy guard and accompanied by Parliament Speaker Rauhi Fattouh, who would step in as a caretaker president of the Palestinian Authority. The men did not comment to reporters.

Eight vehicles full of security forces joined his motorcade, roads were closed, and dozens of Palestinian police guarded the area. In his year as prime minister, Qureia has traveled to the volatile Gaza Strip only two or three times.

The situation is particularly delicate in Gaza, where rival groups of gunmen and security officials have fought each other in the streets, jockeying for power ahead of Israel's planned withdrawal from the coastal strip in 2005.

Qureia's first meeting consisted of leaders of the Islamic groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as chiefs of the competing Palestinian security forces in Gaza.

After the meeting, Qureia said the security commanders had committed to a "joint security plan ... to ensure security and order."

He said the Islamic groups "reiterated the importance" of working together with the Palestinian government "to reach a national program and a national plan and to achieve a political partnership."

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