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.

Merkel réclame la libération de Morsi de l'Égypte

BERLIN, Berlin, 14 July 2013 (AFP)

Sunday German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the release of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was arrested July 3 after being deposed by the army.

She said that she agreed with his Minister for Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle "that Mr. Morsi should be released" and called for "a (political) open process involving all groups of the Egyptian people", speaking on public television ARD.

'Everything must be done to find a common path' in Egypt, she said.

First freely elected president of the Egypt was overthrown by a military coup on 3 July after millions have invaded the streets, asking him to resign.

Since then, movement of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi led to protests against eviction, urging a "revolt" after he accused troops and police "massacre" of his supporters during the dawn prayers Monday, where 51 people were killed.

Westerwelle had Friday urged the release of Morsi and demanded that a "neutral institution" immediately have access to him. The United States has also called for the release of Morsi and sentenced again a wave of arbitrary arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hamas slams ‘massacre’ of Morsi supporters in Cairo

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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 08, 2013 (AFP)

Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers on Monday condemned the “massacre” of dozens of people demonstrating against last week’s military coup which ousted former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, calling for an end to the bloodshed.

“Hamas condemns the massacre of dozens of peaceful Egypt civilians today at dawn, expresses its profound pain and sadness over the victims, and calls for an end to the bloodshed among the Egyptian people,” it said in a statement.

According to the Muslim Brotherhood, the party from which Morsi hails, at least 35 people were killed when soldiers and police opened fire on a group of its activists who were holding dawn prayers at their protest camp outside the headquarters of the elite Republican Guard in Cairo.

But a senior medical official put the death toll at 42 and said 322 people were wounded in an attack whose circumstances were disputed, with witnesses saying the army had only fired tear gas and warning shots, claiming the gunfire was carried out by “thugs” dressed as civilians.

In a statement, the army said “armed terrorists” tried to storm the base, leaving one security officer dead and six critically wounded.

Last week, senior Hamas official Yussef Rizq had criticised the ouster of Morsi in a posting on his Facebook page.

“What happened in Egypt, his eviction and removal of power, is not part of a genuine democratic process, because they used military force and not the voice of the people through elections,” Rizq wrote on Thursday.

General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declares removal of Morsi

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Head of Egypt’s armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declares removal of Morsi.

‘All options’ open to Egypt over Ethiopia dam: Morsi

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CAIRO, June 11, 2013 (AFP)

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has warned that “all options are open” in confronting an Ethiopian project to build a dam on the Blue Nile, which may diminish Egypt’s water supply.

“I confirm that all options are open to deal with this subject,” the Islamist president told hundreds of his supporters late Monday at a conference on the issue.

“If a single drop of the Nile is lost, our blood will be the alternative,” he said, in his strongest warning yet on the dam project.

“We are not warmongers, but we will never allow anyone to threaten our security,” he added.

A Morsi adviser said last week that Egypt would demand Ethiopia halt construction of the dam.

Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr would travel to Ethiopia “in the coming days” to “present the Egyptian point of view,” Prime Minister Hisham Qandil said on Monday.

“Water is a question of life and death for the Egyptian people. Water is a matter of national security,” Qandil added.

Ethiopia has begun diverting the Blue Nile some 500 metres (yards) from its natural course to construct the dam.

Cairo said it opposed any project that affected the flow of the river downstream.

The Blue Nile joins the White Nile in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to form the Nile, which then flows through Egypt.

Egypt says its “historic rights” to the Nile are guaranteed by two treaties from 1929 and 1959 which allow it 87 percent of the Nile’s flow and give it veto power over upstream projects.

But a new deal was signed in 2010 by other Nile Basin countries, including Ethiopia, allowing them to work on river projects without Cairo’s prior agreement.