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Emirati FM denounces allegations of plot against Morsy

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December 18th, 2012

The United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed has rejected claims by Muslim Brotherhood members that his country is plotting Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's overthrow.

Emirati news agency WAM reported that Zayed met with Egyptian ambassador to the UAE Tamer Mansour and raised concerns about "fabricated remarks broadcast recently by some media in Egypt involving accusations against the UAE, including the allegation that it was engaged in plots against the Egyptian leadership."

Freedom and Justice Party member Mohamed Mossad Yaqout had recently alleged that Egyptian opposition forces were trying to overthrow Morsy with help from a "Gulf cell."

His comments echo recent allegations by Brotherhood members that the UAE's ambassador to Egypt was involved in an assassination plot against Morsy.

Zayed denied the allegations and urged Mansour to open a legal investigation into the claims.

"He stressed to the ambassador the need for the Egyptian government to follow up on these unfounded and slanderous fabrications, which do not serve the fraternal relationship between the two sisterly countries," WAM said.

Relations have been strained between the Brotherhood and the UAE, where the group is outlawed. The wealthy Gulf country maintains a strong grip on internal political opposition, and fears have risen among the country's leadership that the recent wave of popular uprisings in the region could challenge its rule.

Sixty Emiratis were arrested in July on suspicion of belonging to the Brotherhood, and Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan recently slammed the group, saying in a statement to the media that the group behaved like a "mafia."

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Investigations into murder of Egyptian in London too slow, say activists

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November 8th, 2012

 

Members of 15 political movements staged a demonstration outside the British Embassy in Cairo on Thursday, protesting what they say is a problematically slow investigation into the murder of Egyptian doctor Karim Assaad in a London hospital last year.

Assaad was killed in Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales on 24 April 2011, a week before he was to present his research on using a substitute for morphine in anaesthesia.

In anticipation of the demonstration, central security forces closed all entrances to the embassy and surrounded it by barbed wire and armored vehicles.

“It looks like we are still under British occupation,” said Assaad’s mother, Amal Mohamed.

According to the state-run Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper, the “We Are All Assaad” campaign criticized the Foreign Ministry and the Egyptian ambassador to the United Kingdom for what it called the poor, even suspicious management of the case.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Deeply frustrated with Myanmar massacres, Egypt summons ambassador

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November 5th, 2012

Egypt has expressed its frustration with renewed violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, calling on authorities there to adopt decisive measures to put an end to the massacres.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Amr Roshdy told DPA that the ministry summoned Myanmar’s ambassador Sunday to inform him of Egypt’s anger over the violence. The ministry delivered a message to Myanmar authorities calling for perpetrators behind the violence to be referred to justice and to cease discrimination against Muslims of any sect.

Egyptians demonstrated outside the Myanmar Embassy in Cairo in July to protest the killing of several Muslims from the Rohingya community by Buddhists, reportedly in retribution for the rape of a Buddhist woman by a group of Rohingyas.

Al-Azhar has called for support to Rohingya Muslims. Last week, the liberal Wafd Party called for the withdrawl of the Egyptian ambassador to Myanmar.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Diplomats checking on US-based Egyptians after Sandy

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October 31st, 2012

President Mohamed Morsy has instructed Ayman Ali, presidential adviser on expatriate Egyptian affairs, to communicate with the Egyptian community in the US in the wake of Sandy, one of the largest storms to the hit the eastern seaboard.

Morsy has also expressed his condolences to the American people, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said in a statement on Facebook. At least 40 people have been reported killed due to the storm.

Egyptian Ambassador to the US Mohamed Tawfiq said the Embassy is making every effort to ensure that Egyptians in the US are safe and well.

The ambassador said that the Embassy has contacted mosques, churches and other areas where Egyptians gather and that no deaths have been reported among the expatriate community. He also said the Embassy is receiving updates from the Egyptian Consulate in New York City.

There are more than 318,000 Egyptians residing in the US.
 

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Brotherhood official resigns to protest Morsy letter to Israeli president

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October 22nd, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood leader Ahmed al-Hamrawy resigned from the group and its Freedom and Justice Party to protest a letter introducing the new Egyptian ambassador to Israel.

The letter was addressed from President Mohamed Morsy to Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Hamrawy, former secretary general of the Lawyers Syndicate in Alexandria, described the letter as “national and religious treason,” and added it a waste of the blood of the Egyptian and Palestinian “martyrs” from 1948 until the present day.

The way the letter appointing the new Egyptian ambassador was written has sparked a wave of criticism by opponents of the president because of its intimate phrasing and what they see as an overly friendly tone.

Hamrawy told Al-Masry Al-Youm, “I handed in my resignation because of the letter that neither the [Brotherhood] nor the [FJP] rejected or disowned, which confirms the presence of secret ties and agreements between the Muslim Brotherhood and Israel that are conducted away from the people and Brotherhood youth, and I reject them, therefore I announced my withdrawal from the group.”

Essam Zahran, former MP for the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, described the writing style of Morsy’s letter to Peres as similar to the letters sent by Prophet Mohamed to Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.

Zahran told Aswat Masriya, a political website, that what Morsy did “has its origin in Islam.”
 
He described the letter as “following the example of Prophet Mohamed, when he addressed the Byzantine leader, saying ‘from Mohamed the Prophet of Islam to Heraclius the Byzantine greatest,’ and the relations between Muslims and Byzantines then were very similar to our relationship with the Israelis now.”

“The way of writing the letter,” Zahran continued, “does not mean at all satisfaction of the presidency or the Islamic current with the Israeli policies toward our brothers in Palestine. We still see it as a usurper entity that has established their state on the ruins of another state.”

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Morsy to visit Iraq soon, says ambassador

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August 2nd, 2012

 

President Mohamed Morsy will visit Iraq soon to reaffirm the good relationship between the two countries, said Egyptian ambassador to Iraq Sherif Shaheen on Thursday.

The daily Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabah quoted Shaheen as saying that Morsy will undertake his visit after resolving urgent domestic affairs, but the ambassador did not specify a date.

The trip would come as part of a tour of the Arab region, Shaheen continued, stating that preliminary arrangements have already been made.

“Egypt is currently working to achieve safety and stability, and this should happen with the collaboration of all the Arab peoples, especially the people of Iraq. We look forward to working with Iraq in the coming period, as there are many points that the two nations can cooperate on,” said Shaheen.

The ambassador added that when Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zabari met with Morsy in Cairo last month, the president expressed his wish to visit Iraq at the earliest opportunity.

Shaheen was appointed as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq in June 2009, four years after diplomatic relations were suspended between the two countries. The former Egyptian ambassador in Baghdad, Ihab al-Sharif, was believed to have been assassinated there in July 2005 by Al-Qaeda.

 

 

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Ambassador: Contacts made toward releasing reporter in Sudan

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July 4th, 2012

Egyptian Ambassador to Sudan Abdel Ghaffar al-Deeb said on Tuesday that contacts were being made with Sudanese authorities to check on the condition of an Egyptian reporter detained in Khartoum on Monday.

Sudanese security detained reporter Shaimaa Adel of the privately owned Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan late Monday at a cyber cafe in the Hajj Youssef region of the capital. Sudanese journalist Marwa al-Teejany and activist Yousra Abdallah were also detained before being taken to an unknown destination in a pickup truck.

Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Deeb urged Egyptian reporters covering protests in Sudan to follow instructions and obtain foreign journalist permits from the Sudanese Information Ministry.

Adel is the second Egyptian reporter to be arrested while covering protests against soaring prices and austerity measures in Sudan. Last week, Sudanese authorities released Salma El-Wardany, an Egyptian reporter working for Bloomberg news, after she was detained while covering the demonstrations.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Egyptian ambassador: 30,000 votes so far in Saudi

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June 6th, 2012

Egyptian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mahmoud Ouf said on Wednesday that so far 30,000 Egyptians living in Saudi Arabia have cast their votes in the presidential election runoff between Mohamed Morsy and Ahmed Shafiq.

“This reflects how keen the Egyptian community is to uphold its right to determine the future of their nation,” Ouf said, adding that he expects more votes over the weekend.

Saudi Arabia hosts the largest Egyptian expatriate community in the world.

Ouf urged voters to go to the embassy in Riyadh and the consulate in Jeddah, or to mail their votes quickly, so as to avoid last minute crowds.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Early results put Morsy in lead for Egyptians in Saudi Arabia

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May 21st, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy leads the presidential race so far among Egyptians in Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Ambassador in Riyadh Mahmoud Ouf said Monday.

Morsy led with 49.5 percent of the 83,351 valid votes cast in the Riyadh constituency, the Egyptian Embassy in Riyadh announced Monday. The constituency includes the central, east and northeast parts of Saudi Arabia, state-run news agency MENA reported.

Presidential hopeful Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, a former Muslim Brotherhood member, won 26.13 percent of the vote. Nasserist hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi came in third with 11.4 percent.

Former Arab League chief Amr Moussa ranked fourth with 7.45 percent, while ex-Civil Aviation Minister Ahmed Shafiq followed with 4.24 percent. The two Mubarak-era ministers ranked as front-runners in local polls.

Out of an estimated 160,000 voters who registered to vote in Riyadh, 55 percent cast their votes, either by coming to the embassy in person or by sending their choices by mail.

On Sunday, Ali al-Esheiry, the Egyptian consul-general in Jeddah, announced the voting results from Jeddah constituency, which includes west, northwest and south Saudi Arabia. He said 48 percent of about 56,000 votes went to Morsy.

Abouel Fotouh came in second with 28 percent, while Sabbahi came in third with 6,029 votes and Moussa followed with 4,504 votes. The other candidates in the race received less than 2,000 votes.

Morsy previously won 30.9 percent of the vote for Egyptians in Kuwait, followed by Abouel Fotouh with almost a quarter of the votes, the Egyptian ambassador to Kuwait announced Sunday.

Meanwhile, Abouel Fotouh leads the race in the US constituencies of Washington, Houston and Chicago, while Shafiq won the highest number of votes in New York and Los Angeles.

Polling stations set up overseas were scheduled to begin vote counting after voting ended for Egyptians abroad at 8 pm on 17 May, according to rules set by the Presidential Elections Commission.

The results are set to be announced when the vote-counting process ends. Voting in Egypt will open Wednesday and Thursday.

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Abouel Fotouh leads presidential race abroad

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May 18th, 2012

Preliminary results of expatriate voting in the presidential election show that moderate Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh is leading the field.

Egyptian Ambassador to Austria Khaled Shamaa said in a statement Friday that Abouel Fotouh came in first with 223 votes, Amr Moussa finished second with 171 votes, Hamdeen Sabbahi third with 129 votes, Mohamed Morsy fourth with 111 votes, and Ahmed Shafiq fifth with 109 votes. Khaled Ali garnered 12 votes while Mohamed Selim al-Awa had six.

The Egyptian Ambassador to the US, Sameh Shokry, announced that Abouel Fotouh leads the race in the US with 882 votes, followed by Moussa with 664 votes, and Sabbahi with 661 votes. Shafiq received 454 votes, Morsy received 300 votes, and Ali and Awa garnered 49 votes each. Hesham al-Batawisi received four votes followed by Abul Ezz al-Hariry with two.

Abouel Fotouh also finished first in Germany with 647 votes, followed by Sabbahi with 476 votes and Morsy with 199 votes. Moussa garnered 177 votes, Shafiq 76 votes, Ali 40 votes and Awa 25 votes.

In Yemen, Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Aql announced that Morsy came in first with 109 votes, followed by Abouel Fotouh with 72 votes and Moussa with 37 votes. Sabbahi received 31 votes, Shafiq 30 votes, Awa 12 votes, Batawisi 5 votes and finally Ali 2 votes.

In Sudan, the Egyptian Embassy announced that Morsy ranked first with 241 votes, followed by Abouel Fotouh with 139 votes and Sabbahi with 112 votes. Moussa received 61 votes, Shafiq 43 votes, Ali seven votes, Awa five votes and Batawisi one vote.

Egyptian Embassy in Khartoum added that voter turnout was less than 50 percent as 1,339 voters registered for the elections but only 611 participated. One ballot out of 611 was invalid, a statement from the embassy said.

Egypt's Embassy in Paris announced that Sabbahi finished first with 687 votes, followed by Shafiq with 667 votes and Abouel Fotouh with 652 votes. Moussa received 579 votes, Morsy 371 votes, Ali 32 votes, Awa 29 votes, Batawisi 28 votes, and finally Hariry three votes.

Edited translation from MENA
 

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