Kerry in Egypt on first visit since Morsi ouster

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: USA Today

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo on Sunday pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president.

The Egyptian military's removal of Mohammed Morsi in July followed by a harsh crackdown on his protesting supporters led the U.S. to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.

At a joint news conference following a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, Kerry said that the suspension of aid to Egypt is not a punishment but a legal requirement after the Egyptian military in July toppled the democratically elected government.

Kerry said the topic was mentioned only briefly in his meeting with Fahmy and that he believed Egyptian authorities understood that rationale.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/03/kerry-egypt-us-morsi/3410737/

[blm]

1. Notice the corpmedia has no interest in the heavy lifting he's been doing.

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[karynnj]

2. Even more ignored is the work that he and Feingold did to try to end the war in the Congo

I tried to pull what I could together - http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014638761

Feingold, who chaired the African sub committee of SFRC was an outstanding pick as an envoy and he (and Kerry) appear to have been very useful here.


(It is odd that there were HUNDREDS more threads when HRC lost her cool in the Congo in 2009 because she was asked Bill's opinion -wrong as that was.)

[karynnj]

3. Kerry's answer is very interesting

By stating it that way, he is admitting the truth -- which the administration was very unwilling to do -- that the takeover was a coup.