Saudi Arabia on Wednesday urged world support for the bid by Egypt's interim government to achieve "stability" in the country, and not to hamper its efforts.
Saudi Arabia
on
Wednesday urged world support for the bid by
Egypt
's
interim government to achieve "stability" in the country, and not to
hamper its efforts.
"We expect the international community to support the efforts of
Egypt
's
government in its bid to achieve what we all aspire for--security, stability,
and prosperity," Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told AFP.
The kingdom urges the international community, "not to take measures that
could hamper the efforts of
Egypt
's
government to stabilize" the country, Prince Saud said.
His comments come as European Union ministers are due to meet later Wednesday
in Brussels, where they are expected to firmly condemn the violence sweeping
Egypt but stop short of sanctions.
The EU meeting has been hastily convened in the middle of
Europe
's
summer break after the deaths of almost 900 people in a week of unrelenting
violence in
Egypt
,
linked to
Cairo
's
crackdown on supporters of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who was deposed by
the army on July 3.
Among the options mulled by the ministers will be withholding part of the EU's
massive aid package or suspending arms deals as well as military and security
cooperation pending a political solution in the Arab nation.
Prince Saud announced on Monday that Arab and Islamic nations are ready to step
in to help
Egypt
if
Western nations cut aid packages to
Cairo
.
Saudi Arabia
and
other Gulf countries welcomed
Egypt
's ouster
of Morsi, with
Riyadh
announcing an aid package of $5 billion to
Egypt
.
Kuwait
and
the
United Arab Emirates
followed suit, bringing the pledges made by the three oil-rich Arab states of
the Gulf to $12 billion.
Analysts say
Saudi Arabia
and
its Gulf allies are throwing their financial and diplomatic weight behind
Egypt
's
army-installed rulers because they see the political Islam espoused by Morsi's
Muslim Brotherhood as a regional destabilizing force.
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