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Egypt’s Brotherhood would keep Israel treaty — Carter
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| News Date | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Cairo The Muslim Brotherhood may seek to modify, but will not destroy, Egypt’s 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel, former US President Jimmy Carter said on Saturday.
Carter, 87, was speaking after initial vote tallies put the Brotherhood’s candidate ahead in the first round of Egypt’s presidential election, which his Carter Centre helped monitor.
The US statesman, who brought together Israeli leader Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1978 to agree the Camp David accords which led to a 1979 treaty, said he had held long discussions with senior Brotherhood figures in Egypt this week.
“My opinion is that the treaty will not be modified in any unilateral way,” Carter said at a news conference in Cairo to present the preliminary findings of his election monitors.
Official results in Egypt’s first free leadership election are due on Tuesday, but informal tallies put the Brotherhood’s Mohammad Mursi and Mubarak’s last Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq in the lead. If confirmed, they would fight a run-off in June.
Hamdeen Sabahi, a leftist who has championed Palestinian resistance against Israel, was running a close third. |
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