This would remove the main obstacle to rebuilding a Palestinian national unity government.

The formation of a Palestinian national unity government enables the EU and its partners to resume cooperation with the Palestinian authorities without losing face.

Israel still refuses to accept the new Palestinian national unity government as a negotiating partner because Hamas is part of that government.

In February 2007, the short lived Palestinian government of national unity was created as the result of a summit there.

Indeed, law and order must be the top priority of the unity government, owing to the need to restore the Palestinian public s faith in Palestinian leaders from all factions.

Based on the Saudi sponsored agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the unity government meets the EU Council s demand that a legitimate Palestinian government adopts a platform reflecting the Quartet principles.

Hence, the difference between the Palestinian positions in the current negotiations and those they may hold when a unity government is restored would only be very minor.

It is not too late for Israel to encourage and deal with an Abbas led Palestinian unity government as the first step toward a better balanced approach.

A national unity government must assume three major responsibilities.

9. Stresses the need for unity and territorial integrity of all the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Indeed, Mubarak has already called for a resumption of inter Palestinian dialogue, which might lead to yet another attempt at a national unity government, the same kind of government with which both Israel and the US refused to do business.

This requires not only a cease fire with Hamas, but also a return to a Palestinian national unity government that alone can offer the peace process the vital legitimacy that it lacks today.

But the newly established national unity government faces yet another daunting challenge.

It is worth remembering that public opinion polls in Israel immediately after the 2006 war in Lebanon indicated that 76 of the population supported negotiations with a Palestinian national unity government that included Hamas.

Given previous failures, this round of talks might prove to be the final chance to re establish Palestinian unity.

That would be a violation of the principle of the territorial integrity and unity of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

For Palestine s unity government, the time to begin the rebuilding process is now.

Can Hamas and Fatah put aside their differences and form a unity government?

The PPP and PML N have the numbers to form a unity government.

6. Calls upon the Government of National Unity and Transition to take specific measures

6. Calls upon the Government of National Unity and Transition to take specific measures

Some southern parties, other than SPLM, have also joined the Government of National Unity.

It was integrated with the Greek government in exile in a national unity government at the Lebanon conference in May 1944.

The national unity Government constitutes the most broadly representative Government in Iraq's history in terms of ethnicity, faith and political affiliation.

The new unity government must insist on the creation of a single, united armed force.

The Government of National Unity itself has yet to begin a national process of reconciliation.

The Government attaches great importance to national unity and the maintenance of peace and stability.

BONUCA will also support the efforts of the Government to promote national unity and reconciliation.

The Committee noted the serious efforts by the Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to end violence, strengthen the national unity of the Palestinian people and achieve a solution of the question of Palestine through exclusively peaceful means.

But can the Middle East conference set to take place in Annapolis, Maryland succeed? It could if it ushered in a Palestinian national unity government and an agreement to an extended truce backed by a strong international military presence.

But the national unity government created as a result of this agreement faces many daunting challenges.

On the day of the inauguration of the Government of National Unity, beautiful words were spoken.

Unable to pay the salaries of more than 40,000 public employees in Gaza, it was being slowly strangled by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities. And the unity government that it established with the Palestinian Authority in June brought no relief.

A Palestinian national unity government would not impede a settlement for the simple reason that the moderates now negotiating with Israel must in any case strive for an agreement that the extremists could not label as a treacherous sell out.

I appeal to the United Nations system to respect that and to reflect it in all its dealings with the Government of National Unity and with the government of southern Sudan, without prejudice to the unity and sovereignty of the Sudan.

The President issued a decree on the same day to establish a caretaker Government, pending the establishment of the Government of National Unity.

The Palestinian government is united administratively, but divided politically.

Under Palestinian law, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, must now ask Hamas to form a new government.

Stressing the need for respect and preservation of the territorial unity, contiguity and integrity of all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,

The unity government soon collapsed and in 1994 a civil war broke out, which lasted until 1998.

The final establishment of the teams is expected once the Government of National Unity has been established.

It is in this context that the abortive Palestinian Mecca Agreement between the religious (Hamas) and the secular (Fatah) to form a national unity government for Palestine might have established a new paradigm for the future of regime change in the Arab world.

Stressing the need for respect for and preservation of the territorial unity, contiguity and integrity of all of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,

With regard to the police, the Government of National Unity and Transition has trained and integrated the following

The address by the King of Jordan refers to his country's positive response regarding the Palestinian people's wish for unity with Jordan in 1950, as well as the wish of the PLO, as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, to establish a Palestinian State.