Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal agreed on a scheduled mechanism to reactivate the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a Hamas official said on Sunday.

Abbas and Mashaal, who met in Cairo on Friday evening, "agreed to rebuild and rehabilitate the PLO," Yehia Mussa, a Hamas lawmaker, told reporters in Gaza.

He added that the two leaders also agreed to hold two more meetings in the near future in Cairo and Damascus, the Syrian capital where Mashaal is based.

Mussa denied press reports that the ruling Hamas has given its final acceptance to join the PLO. However, he confirmed that Hamas will enter the PLO as soon as it is reformed.

"It was clear that we have no veto on joining the PLO since we agreed to talk on the organization," Mussa added.

The Islamic factions of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) remained outside the body which had signed Oslo peace accords in 1993.

Source: Xinhua