Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya (2R), Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar (2L) and Interior Minister Saeed Seyam in Gaza, yesterday. (Xinhua Photo/Reuters)

A meeting held between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haneya in Gaza last night ended without an agreement.

"Abbas and Haneya could meet again Sunday evening to continue discussions on essential issues," Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Abbas' Office, told reporters.

"The two sides discussed issues of national interests to the Palestinian people and how to end the impasse the Palestinians are passing through. The aim of the meeting is to agree on the document of national accordance," Abu Rudeineh said.

He reiterated that the dialogue "is going toward positive results in a way that we can at the end positively respond to the international community's demands."

"There was a consensus on the necessity of ending Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people and consequently embarrassing Israel by stopping firing homemade rockets at Israel," he said.

As for issues which were not agreed upon, he said that "the most important thing is to form a new government to convince the world that we have a government the world can deal with."

"This is the subject that we hope we can agree upon soon," he said.

The meeting, the second between Abbas and Haneya within 24 hours, was aimed at reaching an agreement on 18 items of the document, which calls for establishing a Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.

If the dialogue fails to reach an agreement on the document, a referendum will be held on July 26.