Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Protests in Egypt: President Mubarak puts the responsibility now to the new head of government and calls for reform

Raiders terrorize the population, the protests continue - in Egypt is in turmoil, President Mubarak puts the responsibility now to the new head of government and calls for reform. Inflation had slowed down, new jobs are created. Cairo - For days, is Egypt's people to the streets calling for the end of his regime - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded with demands to which he redefined prime minister on the persistent unrest: it penetrates to "comprehensive" action to the political system and the to reform constitution, Mubarak in a televised speech on Sunday.


Here, the president spoke for a "dialogue with all parties" from. He also called on Prime Minister Ahmed Schafik, "decided" to fight corruption and restore confidence in the economy. Government subsidies should be preserved, brought inflation under control and jobs. The state news agency Mena also reported that Mubarak spoke in a telephone conversation with President Obama on policy reforms.

The ruling for 30 years, Mubarak is one of the main partners of the U.S. in the Middle East and is considered stable support of the efforts for peace with Israel. Since Tuesday of last week, suggests the largest wave of protests against Mubarak's tenure. At least 125 people died in clashes between security forces and demonstrators have already died.

In response to the mass protests Mubarak had dismissed the entire government under Prime Minister Ahmed Nasif and former Minister of Aviation Schafik on Saturday made the new head of government. The intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Mubarak appointed as Vice President. The personnel changes, the protesting masses but can not assuage.

German politicians fear Islamist takeover on Sunday, had carried the hopes of the opposition, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei, connected, despite house arrest the demonstrators on Tahrir Square. In the presence of several leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Mubarak again called on to resign and reaffirmed his claim to leadership.

The Muslim Brotherhood, demanded the resignation of Mubarak. By giving the Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei calls it, "said the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamal Naseer, the news agency. The Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned. It occurs for a "Islamization of the country by peaceful means" field.

Even in the early hours of Monday demonstrators have on the central Tahrir Square in Cairo continue their protest against the regime of President Husni Mubarak. A correspondent of the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera reported early in the morning, that several hundred people have persevered in spite of existing curfew on the military-backed space.

Their numbers have decreased in the course of the night, all was peaceful. Otherwise, the streets in the heart of the Egyptian capital were largely empty. In the residential districts of Cairo, from which the police had largely withdrawn, continued to try militia to keep looters. Also, shots were heard from there.

However, these are also in urban areas at night and more military vehicles have been seen as in the nights before, eyewitnesses reported. According to the Egyptian state media on Monday the police want to show presence in the city again. Some police officers were already on Sunday evening to be seen again on the streets.

The curfew will be extended in the meantime: it starts already by 15 local time clock in the afternoon and ends at 8 clock in the morning. Foreign Office Travel Advice exacerbated Barack Obama called for a peaceful "transition" in Egypt. As his spokesman Robert Gibbs announced on Sunday, the President discussed the situation over the weekend on the phone with the leaderships of Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Great Britain.

He had expressed that the U.S. "an orderly transition to a government" supported, "which addresses the aspirations of the Egyptian people." German politicians, meanwhile, warned against a growing power of Islamic fundamentalists. "It is doubtful that do not benefit the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists from the protests - and steer the country in a different direction than we do," said the foreign policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Philipp Missfelder, the "image" - newspaper.

What the opposition in Egypt stand is currently unclear. Open Group CEO Juergen Trittin said. "The faster Egypt get back on democracy, economic development and clean government, the worse the chances for Islamists is therefore a speedy transfer of power from Mubarak's a new, democratically elected government is urgently needed." The FDP parliamentary deputies and foreign policy Bijan Djir-Sarai compared the situation in Egypt with the Islamic Revolution in Iran finished in the 1970s.

Pictures from Cairo recalled the fall of the Iranian Shah, he said. "I fear that fundamentalist forces to exploit the situation. You could steer Egypt in the wrong direction." Concern about the development in Egypt will also determine the travel of Chancellor Angela Merkel to the German-Israeli government consultations to Jerusalem.

Merkel will be accompanied to the meeting of several ministers. Because of the unrest, the government has tightened its travel advice for Egypt. "The Foreign Office advises against travel to Egypt on the basis of the currently unstable situation," it said on Sunday evening in Berlin. This especially applies to travel to Cairo, Alexandria and Suez as well as in the urban centers within the country and in the Nile Delta.

A general travel warning that was in days of heavy Protestenerschütterte country but not pronounced. In the resort areas on the Red Sea, the location, according to the Foreign Office is still quiet. "Every passenger is asked, however, thoroughly informed before departure of the security situation in the specific destination of the trip," it said on the website of the Office.

Several other countries made arrangements, fly out on their citizens. The U.S. State Department announced on Monday begin with a wish to evacuation. Japan and China announced that they bring their people with chartered plane out of the country. The Canadian government called on all compatriots to leave Egypt.

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