Foreign Secretary calls for restraint in Egypt
Foreign Secretary William Hague said that "it's very important that the security authorities, the Government respect the right to peaceful protest".
Speaking today the Foreign Secretary said:
鈥淧resident Mubarak spoke partly about Egypt鈥檚 international reputation last night and one of the things that damaged that reputation were some of the scenes we saw last week of violence against protestors. I urge the Egyptian authorities to respect the right to peaceful protest today.鈥�
鈥溁使谔逵齛pp Army have said many times they would not use force against protesters. We expect them to hold to that and also call on protestors to protest in a peaceful way.鈥�
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary also called for clarity:
鈥淧resident Mubarak spoke last night and he spoke partly about transferring some power to Vice President of Egypt it鈥檚 quite hard to work out what powers are being transferred. It鈥檚 not clear on the ground there what is happening and what is being proposed and that isn鈥檛 helping the political situation.鈥�
鈥溁使谔逵齛ppy need to show that there is a credible, real, comprehensive change in clear and unambiguous language.鈥�
鈥溁使谔逵齛ppre isn鈥檛 enough trust in the situation because the crowds in Egypt have wrung the concessions out of the Government bit by bit rather than these being presented at the beginning as a clear way forward and so it does underline the need for in our opinion, one of the things that, that we鈥檝e called for all along, a more broadly based representative Government so that people would be able to see that those in authority were actually people drawn from a wider spread of opinion rather than from the ruling party of the last thirty years. Now we say that with all respect to the sovereignty of Egypt. We are not, and we must not meddle in the affairs of Egypt, but we do think that鈥檚 the sort of thing that would help to calm this situation and show people that there is a credible and irrevocable way forward.鈥�