Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
Brenda O’Reilly
31st August, 2012
President Mohammed Morsi’s historic trip to Beijing signifies a new direction for Egyptian foreign policy. The Muslim Brotherhood leader has sent a clear message by selecting China for his first state visit outside the Middle East. By forging closer ties with China, Morsi is warning the US government not to take Egyptian acquiescence for granted.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
Pepe Escobar
31st august, 2012
You’d better not mess with Muslim Brother Morsi.
Straight out of “communist” China – where he secured a red carpet welcome from President Hu Jintao and vice-president Xi Jinping – the Egyptian president lands in “evil” Iran as a true Arab world leader. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2012
28th August, 2012
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Tuesday in Beijing to discuss bilateral relations, with Morsi stressing that China is important for Egypt’s economic prosperity.
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Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012
27th August, 2012
All indications are that Egypt’s return to the forefront of the Non-Aligned Movement will be the big news this week from the summit meeting at Tehran. The summit’s focus can be expected on three main West Asian issues — Syrian crisis, Iran nuclear issue and the blossoming of the Egypt-Iran relationship.
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Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2012
27th August, 2012
Egypt’s Assistant Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy underlined the importance of Iran’s presidency over the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) given the sensitive situation of the region, and said Cairo is willing to establish the highest level of relations with Tehran, according to Fars news agency.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2012
21st August, 2012
Israel has asked Egypt to remove its tanks from the Sinai Peninsula because their continued presence violates the peace agreement between the two countries, Israel’s Maariv daily reported on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st August, 2012
The gloom in Washington must be deepening. Egypt is careering away from the alliance with the United States – and the bitter truth cannot be hidden or obfuscated anymore.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2012
2nd August, 2012
This is a development that holds the potential to shake up Middle Eastern politics — Iranian vice-president visiting Cairo. The two countries pulled down the shutters following the Iranian revolution in 1979 and a dark period continued right till the end of the Hosni Mubarak era. The revolution on Tahrir Square one year ago heralded a thaw, the first sign of which was the permission granted to an Iranian warship to cross the Suez Canal to visit Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2012
The nightmare scenario has come to be, yet there is much more to the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections than meets the eye
Hani Shukrallah
28th May, 2012
For many Egyptians it is the worst case scenario. Coming to work this morning my cab driver is seething: “They’re as bad as each other, I won’t be voting,” he pledged, referring to the final runoff election between the two front-runners, due to take place in mid-June. He lamented the relatively slim-margin defeat of leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, “he got Cairo and Alexandria and, God bless the Prophet, Port Said.”
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Posted by seumasach on May 2, 2012
1st May, 2012
India would have more than a cursory interest in Egypt’s presidential election Monday. Several opinion polls have shown two frontrunners – former foreign minister and Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa and the islamist leader Abdel Moneim Abol-Fotouh. Moussa of course was a former ambassador to India (1983-86). But then, Moussa has been openly disdainful of the shifts in the Indian foreign policy in the past decade.
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
28th April, 2012
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has agreed with political parties in a meeting on Saturday on six main criteria by which the constituent assembly tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution will be formed.
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