US and other Envoys to meet jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater (updated)

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A group of Western and Arab envoys will visit jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater as they seek to mediate an end to Egypt's crisis, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.

The channel gave no further details on the meeting.

The envoys from the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been meeting allies of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and the army-backed administration that replaced him in a bid to defuse the crisis.

Shater is deputy leader of the Brotherhood and its main political strategist.

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1. Update: Egypt denies report envoys to visit Shater

CAIRO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Egyptian Interior Ministry denied a report on Sunday that Western and Arab envoys were going to visit a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader, the state news agency said.

Abdel Fattah Othman, a top Interior Ministry official, told the MENA news agency that the report of the visit to Khairat El-Shater was completely untrue.

Earlier, the Doha-based news channel Al Jazeera said that envoys from the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates would visit Shater, the Brotherhood's top political strategist (Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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