France’s foreign minister demanded Tuesday that Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi be freed, describing the political crisis as “very critical” after bloody unrest in Cairo.<\/p>\n
“We condemn the violence… We call for dialogue and for the release of president Morsi,” Laurent Fabius told reporters.<\/p>\n
“The situation is very critical. We call for the rejection of violence and for the release of political prisoners including former president Morsi.”<\/p>\n
Egypt has been locked in an increasingly bloody political crisis since Morsi was ousted in a July 3 coup, amid violent clashes between his supporters and opponents.<\/p>\n
Fabius’s comments come as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is on a trip to Egypt, where she held a two-hour meeting with Morsi and pressed for an end to the bloodshed.<\/p>\n
She has urged a political transition that would include the Muslim Brotherhood organization from which Morsi hails.<\/p>\n
The French minister was due to hold talks by phone with Ashton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Source:Agence France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
France’s foreign minister demanded Tuesday that Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi be freed, describing the political crisis as “very critical” after bloody unrest in Cairo.<\/p>\n
“We condemn the violence… We call for dialogue and for the release of president Morsi,” Laurent Fabius told reporters.<\/p>\n
“The situation is very critical. We call for the rejection of violence and for the release of political prisoners including former president Morsi.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}