Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman has rejected as “unacceptable” any foreign intervention in Cairo.
|||Cairo - Vice-President Omar Suleiman on Thursday rejected as “unacceptable” any foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Egypt, which was facing its worst social uprising in 30 years.
“There are some abnormal ways by which foreign countries have intervened through press declarations and statements. This was very strange, given the friendly relations between us and them,” Suleiman said in his first television interview since he was chosen as number two to President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday.
Faced with 10 days of street unrest demanding Mubarak to step down, the White House said on Wednesday Mubarak must begin to take concrete steps toward democratic elections now. It stopped short of calling on him to step down immediately.
“The interference in our internal affairs is a weird thing. Yes to their advice... Yes to their support but to intervene in our affairs and to tell us: 'do this or do that', this is unacceptable and we will not allow it at all,” he said.
United States officials have repeated President Barack Obama's call for an orderly transition of power to “begin now” in Egypt.
The Obama administration also reached out to Egypt's top military officer, stressing the US desire to see calm restored to the streets of Cairo, where pro- and anti-Mubarak forces fought with fists, stones and clubs.
The White House adopted an increasingly tough line toward Mubarak as it became clear that its ally of 30 years, a bulwark of US efforts to maintain regional stability, wanted to serve out his term until presidential elections in September.
Mubarak said on Tuesday he would not run for re-election, a major concession for a man who has ruled Egypt for 30 years and has been a cornerstone of US strategy in the Middle East. But that did not satisfy demonstrators who want him out now. - Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/suleiman-no-meddling-please-1.1021292
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