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| Egypt's army warns over disruption after Morsi deposed |
| 2013-07-10 |
| [BBC.CO.UK] Egypt's defence minister has warned against any attempt to disrupt the country's "difficult" transition. His statement comes almost a week after the army deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and appointed top judge Adly Mansour as interim leader. Mr Mansour has named former the finance minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, as his prime minister. In turn, Mr el-Beblawi has said he will offer some cabinet posts to members of Mr Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement. Mr el-Beblawi's appointment was announced early on Tuesday, along with that of Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and sometime Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. After the fall of Mubarak he ran for president. He lost. , who was named deputy president with responsibility for foreign affairs. Mr el-Beblawi served as finance minister during the period of military rule in the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's overthrow. Mr ElBaradei is a liberal politician who was once the head of the UN nuclear agency. The ultra-conservative Nour party said it was still studying the nomination of Mr ElBaradei. His candidacy as prime minister foundered earlier in the week when Nour objected. The party withdrew from talks to form a new government, but reports on Tuesday suggested it was back on board. A presidential statement suggested the military-backed interim government was reaching out to both the Nour party and the Moslem Brüderbund. "There is no objection at all to including members of those two parties in the government," a presidential front man told the state news agency. Mr el-Beblawi told BBC Arabic that he would be choosing his ministers based on experience and efficiency, but said it was "difficult for me to specify when" he would finish forming the government. |
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