Sunday, February 6, 2011

West supports gradual transition in Egypt

.- The President of the United States, Barack Obama and most influential European countries support the Egyptian Vice President, Omar Suleiman, in an effort to bring down popular discontent without immediately removing power to President Hosni Mubarak. A note posted Sunday on The New York Times (NYT), citing U.S.

government officials, Suleiman has offered the West an''orderly transition''that would include constitutional reform and create contacts with the opposition. The newspaper referred to as evidence statements on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said the transition would take some time''Egypt''and before''needed to do certain things to prepare'' .

In the same vein have been expressed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Support for Suleiman, however, is in contradiction with the main demand of the Egyptian protesters, that struggle for the immediate resignation of Mubarak and the dismantling of a political system built around a single party.

The newspaper also said that so far Suleiman-confidant who served as intelligence chief Mubarak has not established contact with the opposition, according to Egyptian political leaders. ''Instead of losing control, the existing government appears to be consolidating his power,''the paper said.

He also stressed that the protests have resumed in Cairo, although an army general has called for the plaintiffs to leave off Tahrir Square, the main meeting point. Protesters interpreted''simultaneous positions Western leaders and Suleiman as a rejection of their demand to end a dictatorship that has lasted for three decades,''he said.

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