Egypt’s Foreign Minister Tells Obama Not to Impose His Will

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Tells U.S. Not to Impose Its Will
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Wednesday that it would be better for the United States to encourage Egypt in its changes rather than impose its will.
Right at the beginning, he says Biden’s call to VP Suleiman was not helpful ‘at all.’
PBS.org
For Americans to come and say ‘change is now,’ but already we are changing! or, ‘you start now,’ we started last week. So better understand the Egyptian sensitivities and better encourage the Egyptians to move forward and to do what is required,” he told Margaret Warner in Cairo.
When asked if Mubarak would consider stepping down, Gheit said the president believes chaos would follow:

“He believes that if he steps down or relinquishes his authority or nominates somebody else then first that is unconstitutional but second, he thinks that it would entail chaos and it would entail violence and it would entail also opportunities for those who would wish to act in a manner to threaten the state, the stability of the country and society.”

And of the beatings in and around Tahrir Square, Gheit said: “I do not think the government was responsible for that, because, as I was telling you, my office overlooks the Nile. I saw them coming, in hundreds and then in thousands and I felt they should be stopped. But we didn’t have enough forces to stop them from coming into the square. And the president yesterday established a commission to investigate particularly that incident.”

As for the next steps in Egypt, according to Gheit: “We have to move step by step according to a road map where we would reach some time in June, have stabilized, have changed, have transformed, changed the Constitution, changed the parliament or restructured parliament and then we proceed for presidential elections and we allow the new president, who would be appointed sometime in October we allow him to disband parliament, to change parliament, to do whatever with the country.”

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U.S. ( Obama) says Egypt failing to meet protest concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Egypt must do more to meet protesters’ demands for political change, the United States ( OBAMA ) said on Wednesday in a sharp escalation of rhetoric with one of its most important allies in the Middle East.
Washington is waiting for “real, concrete” moves to speed the transition, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said after Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit suggested the United States was eager to impose its will on Cairo.

“What you see happening on the streets of Cairo is not all that surprising when you see the lack of steps that their government has taken to meet their concerns,” Gibbs said.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak held meetings at the White House as the United States and another key ally weighed the impact of Egypt’s crisis on stability in the Middle East.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday set out steps Egypt must take in the face of unrelenting protests against President Hosni Mubarak, bluntly telling his government to stop harassing protesters and immediately repeal an emergency law allowing detention without charge.
The demands appeared aimed at raising pressure on Mubarak’s handpicked vice president, Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief who is negotiating with opposition figures demanding Mubarak’s immediate ouster.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
The world is finding out whose side obama is on and what we have seen with what is happening in Egypt it is the Muslimi Brotherhood. I have not seen one article of him telling them what to do. He has only stated that there are only some fractions of it that are radical. Sheesh! How much more obvious does he have to be.
And Biden and Gibbs of course are total jerks.