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Obama Sees 'Progress' in Egypt

   VOA News  February 05, 2011
   Protesters  chant  anti-government  slogans during mass demonstrations
   against   Egypt's  President  Hosni  Mubarak,  in  Alexandria,  Egypt,
   February 4, 2011

Photo: Reuters

   Protesters  chant  anti-government  slogans during mass demonstrations
   against   Egypt's  President  Hosni  Mubarak,  in  Alexandria,  Egypt,
   February 4, 2011

   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  says Egypt is "making progress" on the
   negotiating path between the government and opposition leaders.
   Mr. Obama made the statement in Washington Monday, a day after Egypt's
   vice  president  met  with  a  range  of opposition groups in a bid to
   defuse 14 days of anti-government demonstrations.
   On  Sunday, Mr. Obama said he believes Egypt will not go "back to what
   it  was" before pro-democracy protests began sweeping the country late
   last month.
   In  an interview with U.S. television network Fox News, Mr. Obama said
   he  was  confident  that an orderly political transition in Egypt will
   produce  a  representative  government  that  can  be a partner of the
   United States.

   Egyptian  protesters are demanding an immediate end to President Hosni
   Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power.  Mr. Mubarak says he will stay in
   office but will not run for a sixth term in a September election.
   White House Video: President Obama on Egypt
   On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there will be change
   in  Egypt, and that it needs to be peaceful. Speaking alongside her at
   a security conference in Germany, British Prime Minister David Cameron
   said  there is no stability in Egypt and there will not be until there
   is change, reform and transition.
   Also  at the conference, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged
   leaders across the Middle East to enact democratic reforms in response
   to the recent protests in Egypt, Tunisia and other countries.
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