http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Saleh, Hamas official talk Palestine [The Source: /www.sabanews.net - 21/06/2009] President Ali Abdullah Saleh met Sunday with a Hamas official and discussed several topics topped by efforts to reconcile the rival Palestinian movements of Fatah and Hamas Saleh met with deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau Moussa Abu Marzouk, who arrived in the country on Saturday for a few-day visit during which he would brief the President on the latest developments in the Palestinian arena. During the meeting, Saleh reiterated Yemen's firm stance supporting the Palestinian case and the Palestinian people's rights. In March 2008, President Saleh sponsored an effort to solve the Fatah-Hamas rift. The two movements accepted the initiative which called on Hamas to retract its coup and accept agreements with Israel as well as holding early presidential and parliamentary elections. The two movements then sent envoys to Yemen, who signed the Sana'a Declaration, which marked a step ahead towards agreement between them