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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Egypt opposition wary after talks


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The government offered to set up a couple of committees: a committee to look at redrafting the constitution, which is very restrictive about who can stand for president; and another committee to look at implementation of these measures.
The opposition members and the so-called "wise men" who were there were saying to me afterwards they were very sceptical about the government's good faith. So they demanded a series of confidence-building measures.
Those include ending immediately the state of emergency which has been in force for 29 years and enables the government to do whatever it likes to supersede the constitution; and other measures, including an end to the incitement to intimidation which they believe is going on on state media.
I don't think they got a clear response from the government; I think everyone's going away to think about their position.



Egypt opposition enters talks:
AlJazeeraEnglish | February 06, 2011 - Al Jazeera's Emike Umolu has more.




The Muslim Brotherhood joined talks with Omar Suleiman, the newly appointed Egyptian vice-president, on Sunday, but said that it had little trust in the government following through on promised reforms.

Meanwhile, over a million protesters flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square, observing a "Day of the Marytrs", with both Muslims and Christians offering prayers for those who have died since protests began on January 25.Hundreds of thousands also protested in the cities of Alexandria and Mansoura.