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Obama launches 'review' of aid to Egypt in wake of military coup
By Julian Pecquet - 07/03/13 07:23 PM ET
President Obama late Wednesday declared himself very concerned by the Egyptian military's overthrow of the country's democratically elected president and said his administration was reviewing U.S. military aid as a result.
In his first statement since the Egyptian army and the opposition overthrew President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government, Obama repeated that the United States was not taking sides in the dispute and avoided using the word coup. He called on the military to quickly restore power to a democratically elected civilian government.
The United States is monitoring the very fluid situation in Egypt, and we believe that ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people, Obama said in a statement. Nevertheless, we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsy and suspend the Egyptian constitution.
I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters. Given todays developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/309259-obama-reviewing-aid-to-egypt-in-wake-of-military-coup
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Obama launches 'review' of aid to Egypt in wake of military coup (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2013
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(25,699 posts)1. Are we as aggrieved and worried about the overthrow of Morsi, as we were about his election?
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)2. Huh? Was he better than Mubarak? We should be concerned to a point.
Egypt is moving fast and it's fascinating to watch. I think the people are speaking; the US has to figure out their role in this w/o getting involved.