Egypt: Opposition to Announce a Negotiating Body
February 4th, 2011 by Kyle
Al-Ahram reports that the anti-government opposition has stated that they will announce a 25 member negotiating body on Saturday. Ziad El-Eleimy, lawyer and youth activist, announced that the committee would include opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Laureate and scientist Ahmed Zewail, and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.The other specifics about who would make up this group were not given, but it was reported that five of its members will come from the youth movement. El-Eleimy stated that this group would attempt to enter into negotiations once President Hosni Mubarak steps down, or if a credible announcement is made pledging Mubarak’s commitment to step down within a specified, and short, period of time.
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