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Foreign minister had been due to meet US delegation led by Trump’s adviser and son-in-law in Cairo to discuss Middle East
By Reuters in Cairo via theguardian.com, Aug. 23
Egypt has called off a scheduled meeting between its foreign minister and top US presidential adviser Jared Kushner after the US decided to withhold millions of dollars in aid.
However, the office of the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said he would meet the US delegation led by Kushner later in the day.
Two US sources told Reuters on Tuesday that Washington had decided to deny Egypt $96m (£75m) in aid and to delay a further $195m because of its failure to make progress on respecting human rights and democratic norms.
“Egypt sees this measure as reflecting poor judgment of the strategic relationship that ties the two countries over long decades and as adopting a view that lacks an accurate understanding of the importance of supporting Egypt’s stability,” the foreign ministry said [....]
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Got interested in the story because after last night's rally in Phoenix, I was looking to see if Sen. McCain would tweet on it. Instead I found these two from him first thing this morning:
And it looks like after reading the news and chosing those two things to tweet, he went off to participate in a Cyber Security conference at Arizona State U., did further tweets on that.
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 5:40pm