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US warns Egypt against revoking previous treaties
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February 8, 2011, Tuesday
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WHITE House spokesman Robert Gibbs yesterday warned any future Egyptian government against revoking previous treaties, including the country's crucial peace treaty with Israel.
Gibbs told reporters that the United States expects any future Egyptian government "would uphold particularly the treaties and the obligations that the government of Egypt, and ultimately the people of Egypt, have entered into."
His remarks came as the United States and Israel are extremely concerned that a radical religious force, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, would come into power in future Egypt, which could threaten the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
The treaty, signed in 1979 by then Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, ended the state of war between the two countries and is essential to Israel's security.
Gibbs said the United States is against the anti-American rhetoric by the Muslim Brotherhood, which he said "goes very counter to the regional peace and stability."
"You have responsibilities if you become part of the government to adhere to the agreements that government has laid out, to adhere to the rule of law and to the constitution and to adhere to nonviolence," he added.
Gibbs told reporters that the United States expects any future Egyptian government "would uphold particularly the treaties and the obligations that the government of Egypt, and ultimately the people of Egypt, have entered into."
His remarks came as the United States and Israel are extremely concerned that a radical religious force, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, would come into power in future Egypt, which could threaten the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
The treaty, signed in 1979 by then Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, ended the state of war between the two countries and is essential to Israel's security.
Gibbs said the United States is against the anti-American rhetoric by the Muslim Brotherhood, which he said "goes very counter to the regional peace and stability."
"You have responsibilities if you become part of the government to adhere to the agreements that government has laid out, to adhere to the rule of law and to the constitution and to adhere to nonviolence," he added.
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