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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9583

19 January 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/egypt
MEPs denounce human rights situation in Egypt - Strong reaction from Cairo

Strasbourg, 18/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption by 52 votes in favour and only 7 abstentions of a resolution on the human rights situation in Egypt, the European Parliament provoked an angry response from Cairo. Before the vote by MEPs on Thursday 17 January, the Egyptian foreign minister had called together the ambassadors of member states posted to the Egyptian capital to state his categorical refusal of a text that covers several sensitive points. The speaker of the Egyptian...

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