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| Court throws out case calling for end of Israel-Egypt treaty |
| 2013-02-27 |
| [Egypt Independent] The Cairo Administrative Court ruled Tuesday that it has no jurisdiction over a lawsuit demanding the cancellation of the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The court said the issue involves state illusory sovereignty, which is under the president's purview. The plaintiffs said Egypt should void its peace deal over ongoing destruction of Islamic holy sites and the country's refusal to stop settlement building in Paleostinian territories, which they said is a violation of United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... conventions and treaty itself. The court handed out the same ruling in a similar case last October. A Freedom and Justice Party figure said Tuesday that the party's legal committee is working on a new draft law to amend the peace treaty. It will be sent to President Mohamed Morsy, so he and the new parliament can review it after the April-May elections, according to Osama Suleiman, the Freedom and Justice Party's secretary general in Beheira Governorate. |
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