National dialogue doesn't exist, and had stopped: Abbas

President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Wednesday that national dialogue among Palestinians doesn't exist and it had stopped, and that all doors would be opened for forming a national coalition.

Abbas made the statements in a joint news conference with visiting Foreign Minister of Bahrain Khaled Den Hammas Al-Khalifa in Ramallah. It is the first ever Bahraini official visit in the Palestinian territories.

Abbas also said at the joint news conference that he would use his authorities "in the suitable time" regarding breaking up the current Hamas-led government.

Abbas added that "we are serious in forming a new Palestinian government," saying the coming two weeks would be decisive and " all options would be open."

Abbas has been involved in four-month-old talks with the governing Hamas movement to form a coalition government in a bid to overcome international pressures and western sanctions on the Hamas-led government.

But all efforts were in vain until deadly clashes erupted between Hamas forces and Abbas loyalists.

"The dialogue should not be for dialogue only, and also the waiting, we can't keep waiting for nothing," Abbas told the news conference, adding that it was important to end the crisis and " the bloody incidents" by forming a new government.

"The ordeal of the people is still ongoing and they can't bear any longer," said Abbas.

Concerning the idea of forming a technocrat government of independents, Abbas confirmed that all factions, including Hamas and Fatah, have proposed the technocrat government. "We will see what is possible and what is not," said Abbas.

Source: Xinhua