The EU foreign policy chief held a two-hour meeting with ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Source: AAP
EGYPT'S ousted president Mohamed Morsi is "well" and has access to news, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says after meeting him at an undisclosed location.
"Morsi is well," she told reporters on Tuesday, adding that he had access to newspapers and television, and describing their talks as "friendly, open and very frank".
Ashton held two hours of talks with Morsi in the early hours of Tuesday, with sources telling AFP she left Cairo on a military helicopter.
She declined to say where Morsi was being held or to characterise his comments to her.
"I'm not going to put words in his mouth," she said.
"We had a friendly, open and very frank discussion," she added. "We talked in-depth."
Ashton arrived in Cairo on Sunday night for an intensive schedule of meetings with Egyptian government officials and opposition representatives.
Her visit came in the wake of the deaths of 82 people at a pro-Morsi rally in Cairo on Saturday morning.
She has urged an end to the bloodshed and a political transition that would include the Muslim Brotherhood organisation from which Morsi hails.
But she said on Tuesday that she was not in Egypt to push either side to take particular actions or to present an initiative.
"I'm not here to ask people to do things," she said, adding that she would be looking to find "common ground" between the sides.
"I don't come here to say somebody should do this, somebody should do that, this is your country," she said.
"The solutions are for the Egyptian people."
In Paris, France's foreign minister demanded on Tuesday that Morsi be freed, and condemned the deadly unrest in Cairo.
"We condemn the violence ... We call for dialogue and for the release of President Morsi," Laurent Fabius told reporters.
Morsi is being held on suspicion of crimes relating to his escape from prison during the 2011 uprising that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak.
His supporters have rallied daily for his reinstatement and on Monday marched from a key Cairo sit-in to several security headquarters.
The marches raised fears of fresh clashes, but protesters kept their distance from security forces and headed back to their protest tent city after the demonstrations.
In the eastern city of Ismailia, however, a security source said clashes between Morsi supporters and opponents broke out, injuring 18.
The Anti-Coup Alliance called for a million-man march later on Tuesday under the banner of "Martyrs of the Coup" to commemorate its dead at a rally in Cairo on Saturday.
It urged Egyptians "to go out into the streets and squares, to regain their freedom and dignity - that are being usurped by the bloody coup - and for the rights of the martyrs assassinated by its bullets".
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Morsi 'well', says EU policy chief
Dengan url
http://jemuranduit.blogspot.com/2013/07/morsi-well-says-eu-policy-chief.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Morsi 'well', says EU policy chief
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Morsi 'well', says EU policy chief
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar