West urges Mubarak to avoid violence

UK PM David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to avoid violence.

Izvor: Ria novosti

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UK PM David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to avoid violence. They also urged the Egyptian president to launch political reforms in the country. West urges Mubarak to avoid violence "We call on President Mubarak to avoid at all costs the use of violence against unarmed civilians, and on the demonstrators to exercise their rights peacefully," the statement, issued in German, said. "We recognize the moderating role President Mubarak has played over many years in the Middle East. We now urge him to show the same moderation in addressing the current situation in Egypt," it said. The three leaders called on Mubarak to "begin a transformation process that should be reflected in a broadly-based government, as well as free and fair elections." Several dozen people have been killed and around 2,000 others have been injured in clashes with police in Cairo and other Egyptian cities as tens of thousands of people took to the streets calling for constitutional reforms and fairer presidential elections. Official reports said at least 62 people had been killed in protests, while Al Jazeera reported about 100 deaths. Mubarak, who has been in power for already three decades, rejected calls from protesters to resign and dismissed the country's government on Saturday, pledging to form a new one and bring in democratic reforms. Later in the day, Mubarak appointed a former civil aviation minister, Ahmed Shafiq, as the country's new prime minister and ordered him to form the new cabinet. Hosni Mubarak (Beta)

West urges Mubarak to avoid violence

"We call on President Mubarak to avoid at all costs the use of violence against unarmed civilians, and on the demonstrators to exercise their rights peacefully," the statement, issued in German, said.

"We recognize the moderating role President Mubarak has played over many years in the Middle East. We now urge him to show the same moderation in addressing the current situation in Egypt," it said.

The three leaders called on Mubarak to "begin a transformation process that should be reflected in a broadly-based government, as well as free and fair elections."

Several dozen people have been killed and around 2,000 others have been injured in clashes with police in Cairo and other Egyptian cities as tens of thousands of people took to the streets calling for constitutional reforms and fairer presidential elections. Official reports said at least 62 people had been killed in protests, while Al Jazeera reported about 100 deaths.

Mubarak, who has been in power for already three decades, rejected calls from protesters to resign and dismissed the country's government on Saturday, pledging to form a new one and bring in democratic reforms.

Later in the day, Mubarak appointed a former civil aviation minister, Ahmed Shafiq, as the country's new prime minister and ordered him to form the new cabinet.

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