Any sanctions imposed on the Egyptian government by the European Union ‘’would do nothing more than play into the hands of extremist groups that have no interest in political dialogue,’’ Egypt’s ambassador to France, Mohamed Moustafa Kamal, said.
Angela Merkel became Tuesday the first active German Chancellor to visit the former Nazi death camp in Dachau, located near Munich, where the Nazis killed more than 41,000 people before US troops liberated it in April 1945.
European Union Foreign Ministers on Wednesday agreed to suspend export licenses to Egypt of any equipment ‘’which might be used for internal repression’’ and to reassess export licences of military equipment and to review the security assistance to this country.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Israel for the removal of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi from office and claimed that he had evidence to prove it.
Bronislaw Komorowski, the president of Poland, has said that he considers the preservation of the religious rights of the country's Jewish community to be a national interest of supreme importance.
European Foreign Ministers will meet Wednesday in Brussels for emergency talks on the EU’s relations with Egypt in response to the Egyptian authorities' crackdown on Islamists supporters of ousted President Morsi.
