Azerbaijan, Baku, 3 May / Trend corr R. Hafizoglu/ Palestine's governing FATAH party believes the Palestinian State will be created by the end of 2008. However, the officials of the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS doubt about that.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the conference on Middle East in London on 2 May said that, as a result of intensive negotiations, independent Palestinian State may be established on the western bank of the Jordan River by the end of 2008.
"Ban Ki-moon is deceiving the international community," HAMAS Spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said to Trend . "We do want to create an independent Palestinian State, but now it is impossible," Abu Zuhri said from Gaza in a telephone conversation on 2 May.
He believes that international organizations are not interested in creation of the Palestinian State.
"If international organizations want HAMAS to create an independent Palestinian State and want prosperity for Palestinians, they should exert impact on Israel in order to stop Gaza blockade," Abu Zuhri said. He believes that Israel does not want establishment of independent Palestinian State and is doing its best to prevent this.
Mohammad Udwan, spokesperson of FATAH's Ramallah headquarters, said that all steps intended to establish Palestinian State would be supported. "The steps made to provide stability in Palestine and to establish an independent state will be fruitful."
"Both Palestine and international official organizations will further closely cooperate to establish sovereign Palestinian State," Udwan said to Trend on 2 May.
Palestine's Islamic Jihad organization and the Israeli Foreign Ministry were not available for interviewing.
"Although Islamic Jihad opposes peaceful negotiations with Palestine, they will not harm the talks which may be held," Khaled Batch, an Islamic Jihad leader, said to Turkish press on 1 May.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a political scientist in the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University, said Ban Ki-moon's statement about creation of Palestinian State by the end of 2008 is just a dream.
"A range of problems must be solved to establish Palestinian State," Mordechai Kedar said to Trend on 2 May.
According to Kedar, until the statuses of Israel, Palestinian refugees and the settlements being constructed for Jews are determined, it is too untimely to speak of creation of Palestine State.
HAMAS was founded in 1987 in Gaza by sheik Ahmad Yasin for release of Palestine territories. The organization won parliament elections in 2006 with a great majority of votes. At present, Gaza is controlled by HAMAS.
The west bank of Jordan River is under the control of ruling FATAH movement founded in 1956 by Yasser Arafat.
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