EU Catherine Ashton arrived in Egypt with official visit

Catherine Ashtone, EU foreign policy chief

Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief of EU, has arrived in Egypt with the three days official visit in order to meet the representatives of the country’s current transitional government and the representatives of different political forces as well and to discuss the ongoing transitional period in Egypt.

Catherine Ashton has visited Egypt several times amid the deepening crisis between the country’s Islamists and the opponents and also right after the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist backed President Mohamed Morsy. EU was dealing as a mediator between the two rival powers in Egypt’s politics, though the reconciliation process and the talks between the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters and the interim government and supporters of Army’s ouster of Mohamed Morsy have failed. Western countries have been also accused by Egyptians of interfering in the internal affairs of the country, though Catherine Ashton stressed several times the mediation of EU has nothing to do with supporting of specific political forces and political courses.

Egypt’s Islamists shows the readiness for the reconciliations process

Meeting between Egypt's government, opposition, Muslim
Brotherhood and US and EU politicians 

Amid the ongoing protests and sit-ins of the supporters of Egypt’s deposed President Mohamed Morsy Islamists showed their readiness for the reconciliation and the talks with the current government and oppositional political forces.

Tarek El-Malt, the official representative and spokesperson of Islamist forces’ delegation at the meeting between the Islamist forces, opposition and the international representatives, has stated Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters are also seeking the solution to resolve the current political crisis in the country and to avoid the violence and clashes between different forces.

The national reconciliation session begins in Egypt with Muslim Brotherhood boycotting the meeting

Adly Mansour, Egypt's interim President

Egypt’s national reconciliation session aimed to gather the representatives of different political forces, social factions and intellectuals of Egypt and discuss the current political situation in the country in order to find the solution and unity started on Wednesday, 24 July.

The meeting was initiated and led by Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour and has been held at the Presidential Palace in Cairo. The session was attended by Mohamed ElBaradei, who is holding the position of the Vice President during the transitional period, and also by the representatives of Al-Azhar, the highest Islamic authority in Egypt, of the Egypt’s Coptic Church, representatives of several political parties and forces of Egypt and also intellectuals.