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US: political settlement in Syria further out of reach 15/06/2013 19:16 CET Egypt unveils new 35-member cabinet 02/08/2012 18:34 CET Arab League foreign ministers focus on Syria 05/06/2013 20:45 CET Sunni cleric’s call for jihad in Syria highlights… 02/06/2013 00:05 CET Egypt’s Shura Council and constitutional panel… 02/06/2013 15:16 CETEgypt’s President Mohamed Mursi said his government had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus – in a strengthening of his stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Mursi also called for a no-fly zone over Syria. The United States said on June 14 that it had considered this but had decided it had no national interest in pursuing that option. Russia is vehemently opposed to a no-fly zone.
Speaking at a rally of supporters in Cairo, Egypt’s Sunni Muslim head of state stressed that fighters from the Lebanon-based Shi’ite group Hezbollah, who have been supporting Assad’s forces in Syria, should not be there:
“Hezbollah must leave Syria. These are serious words. There is no place for it in Syria,” Mursi told the cheering crowd.
Hezbollah militants joined Assad’s forces in recapturing the strategic Syrian city of Qusair from rebel control in early June.
The United States announced this week that it would start offering military assistance to the Syrian opposition, after Washington concluded that Assad’s forces had used chemical weapons.
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