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| No defections or talks with interim presidency, Brotherhood says |
| 2013-10-03 |
| [Al Ahram] The Moslem Brüderbund has denied defectors from the group met with government representatives. "The Brotherhood is united and has no relationship with those invited to attend talks [with the interim presidency]," said the statement on Wednesday by the group's secretary general Mahmoud Ezzat. "The conspiracies promoted by the military authority have not achieved their goals. They are rejected by the true youth of the Moslem Brüderbund." On Tuesday, Ahmed El-Moslemany, the president's media advisor, met with Brotherhood defectors to discuss current state of affairs. "The coup authority is making these claims [of defections] at the same time as [European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief] Catherine Ashton's visit in order to show it is open to dialogue with different political forces." "[Defections] is opposite to the reality of situation. There has been a continued campaign of arrests against the Brotherhood since the coup against the [legitimate president on 3 July]," the statement continued. The Brotherhood reiterated that it would not withdraw its demand to end "the military coup" and for Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... to return to the presidency. News reports on Tuesday said Ashton was working on a new reconciliation initiative with leading Brotherhood members Amr Darrag and Mohammed Ali Bashr. According to Al-Ahram, the two senior figures will demand in a meeting with the EU official on Wednesday an end to the crackdown on its members and for those tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... to be released, in return for an end to protests. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the 'Moslem Brüderbund Without Violence' movement, a small opposition grouping in the Brotherhood, said the interim government had no intention of conducting serious talks with the Brotherhood, and described the meeting between Ahmed El-Moslemay and alleged Brotherhood defectors members as "comic." "The group that met with El-Moslemany has no relationship whatsoever with the Moslem Brüderbund. These people belong to anonymous parties aiming to defame the reformist current within the Brotherhood," the movement said. "There will be no serious dialogue with the current regime except after all Moslem Brüderbund members are released and the 50-member constitution-amending committee is reconstituted," the movement added. |
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