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Africa: Clinton meets Morsi in Cairo, seeks commitment to peace, dialogue with military.

July 14, 2012 · 321567 Comments2012-07-14+20%3A53%3A54goth+Mohamed

Clinton is set to ask President Morsi for a ‘clear cut commitment’ to the peace treaty with Israel while ensuring domestic civil rights and liberties

Dina Ezzat , Saturday 14 Jul 2012

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the presidential palace in Cairo. Clinton hoped to use her first meeting with Egypt’s new Islamist president on Saturday to steer him toward opening a dialogue with the military that could end the country’s political crisis. (Photo: AP)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday afternoon at the Presidential Palace in the suburb of Heliopolis, Cairo, for the first high-level talks of a senior US official with recently-sworn-in Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Clinton, according to informed officials, is planning to raise three main issues with the new president.

One of the main issues to be discussed, according to an official who spoke to Ahram Online on condition of anonymity, is to receive a “clear cut commitment” from the new president that under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood Egypt will remain as committed to the peace deal with Israel as it has been over the last three decades.

“There are questions related to Sinai too,” said the official. Israel, according to Western and Egyptian officials in the US capital, Washington DC, has repeatedly complained about what it qualified as loose security arrangements on the Egypt-Israel border, particularly adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

According to what some Western diplomats have said, Israel’s complaints concern “documented evidence of arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.”

The second issue on the agenda, according to the same sources, relates to the nature of bilateral relations between Egypt and the US.

According to Egyptian diplomatic sources in Washington, Clinton will assure Morsi of the US’s continuous support and friendship to Egypt.

However, according to one Egyptian diplomat, “She will also make clear that there are certain things that the US expects from Egypt.”

In addition to stable relations with Israel, the same diplomat states, “The US is expecting Egypt to use the good ties that link the Muslim Brotherhood with the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip to curtail any plans that Hamas might have towards escalation with Israel.”

The US is also expecting Egypt under the presidency of Morsi to remain committed to Egypt’s traditional policy of limited engagement with Iran.

Also on the list of US expectations is a clear cut commitment from the Muslim Brotherhood-backed president on ensuring respect for the rights of women, Copts, and other minorities in Egypt.

The third issue on the agenda of the visiting Secretary of State relates to the internal balance of power in Egypt.

Clinton is set to express US support for coordinated relations between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Brotherhood-backed president.

In addition to her meeting with Morsi, Clinton is set to meet with the heads of SCAF and figures from Egyptian civil society.

According to a senior US official, as reported by Reuters news agency Saturday, Clinton will urge Egypt’s civilian and military leaders to complete a full transition to democratic rule.

Clinton is also expected to hold a press conference this evening in Cairo.

This is the first visit by Clinton to Egypt since March 2011, following the 25 January Revolution that ended three decades of rule under Hosni Mubarak.

Source: Al- Ahram Online

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By goth Mohamed

Tags: Africa: Clinton meets Morsi in Cairo, dialogue with military, Islamist, seeks commitment to peace

Weerar says:

long live Egypt and all the best for you And Somaliland

3:18 pm on July 14, 2012

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- Truth says:
  
  LOL Somaliland again. Give up for once with your delusional country!! Even you so called government gave up and start talking with the Government of Somalia were they come under! Beside the south were called Somaliland too, they were called British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland until both territories united after their colonial time and formed the Somali Republic! They were both called Somaliland because both the Italian and British were occupying ''The land of the Somali people''. That is the meaning of Somaliland idiot
  
  5:59 pm on July 14, 2012
  
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  - I Jama says:
    
    Just like the French Somaliland. So why should the Frensh Somaliland be made Indpenendent but not the British??? huuh… I bet you would not answer this…ha
    
    6:50 pm on July 14, 2012
    
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    - berbera says:
      
      Your missing The point here, The main reasons Djibouti become independent are first 39% population are afar and oromo secondly it was cold era The french They did not want to lose Their military base Those days.
      
      7:45 pm on July 14, 2012
      
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I Jama says:

If you are Somali and/or Somali why are'nt you part of the so called Somali Republich???? Is it because Barre made you escapgoates to attach other nations like th Ehtiopians for the Italians who trained and commissed you?????

6:54 pm on July 14, 2012

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mohamed cheers says:

Now that the peoples of Egypt succeeded to changing Egypt under the Civilian rules
and the new Govt is the Muslim Brotherhood, the First things first should be that the Scaf should
automatically come under the Civilian rules of the Muslim Brotherhood including the supreme
court, in exactly similar to Turkey. This taken care of, the next thing should be to reinstate the already
elected Parliament and to work on a new constitution. Secretary Hilary Clinton should be able
to create new relationships between Cairo and Wash.dc. There should be no complications
between the Muslim Brotherhood and the SCAF/Supreme Court. Hopefully, The M-E crisis would
find a better treatment if the Muslim Brotherhood is allowed its political businesses.
Cheers.

9:33 pm on July 14, 2012

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DaughterOfSomalia says:

If these so called muslim brotherhood were truely Allah fearing, they would have banned that evil warmonger from entering Egypt. They would have also refuse to get anymore bribe money. Shame on any muslim who make dealings with these evil people.

10:47 pm on July 14, 2012

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