Kerry said "too soon" to judge the path of the Egypt after Morsi

AMMAN, July 17, 2013 (AFP)

United States Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday said it was too early to judge yet the future evolution of the Egypt after the ousting of Mohamed Morsi.

"Very clearly the order must be restored, stability must be restored, the rights must be protected... and the country needs to be able to return to normal business," Kerry during a press conference in Amman.

"We are concerned about the political arrests and we are concerned about people being able to participate," Kerry said.

He added that it was much "too early to pronounce or to judge where it will go."

Monday the Assistant Secretary William Burns was in Cairo, most senior American to visit Egypt since the coup d ' état on 3 July which removed Morsi.

Burns urged Egypt divided factions to engage in dialogue and end to violence, according to comments he made in Cairo broadcast on Arab television channels.

Violence that shook Egypt since the eviction of Morsi has made the "difficult" transition, spokesman of the Department of State Patrick Ventrell said later, but he insisted that Washington was not taking sides.

Washington has refrained from that Morsi was victim of a coup, which would legally oblige a freeze of some 1.5 billion $ in economic and military U.S. aid to Cairo.