Donald Trump is meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Egyptian state television has said it had sacked its head of news after an old interview with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was screened in error.
The stakes are likely highest for Trump who, as a foreign policy novice, is still looking to prove his chops before the first presidential debate next Monday.
That was a dig at the proposals of Trump, who has said he would bar immigration from nations with ties to terrorism.
Donald Trump’s meeting with Mr. Sisi is the 1st time the Republican presidential candidate has met a leader from the Muslim world.
General Sisi ousted from power in 2013 the democratically elected government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, who now is in prison under a death sentence imposed past year, and has overseen harsh crackdowns not only against alleged Islamic radicals but also against liberals and secularists who seek real democracy in Egypt.
“In Egypt there will not be a chance for any dictatorship because in Egypt there is a Constitution”, el-Sisi said.
Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi on September 19.
When asked by Burnett whether the Egyptian president believes Trump might not follow up on his ban proposal, he said that “during electoral campaigns there might be a perception that is based on a certain vision or point of view, then that vision gets corrected and it develops in accordance to governing, experience, reports, advice from experts”. Trump has been critical of the Obama administration’s support of Mubarak’s removal.
“We hear that Trump will be supporting Sisi in the so-called fight against terrorism and this will lead to cracking down more on human rights, leading to a massive deterioration in the human rights situation in Egypt”, says Mohamed Ahmed, a researcher on Egypt at Amnesty International. Clinton was more vocal, calling for Egypt to release imprisoned US-citizen Aya Hijazi and to take greater action to prevent human rights abuses.
A Clinton adviser told CNN she would use her meeting with the Egyptian leader to “express displeasure at political repression that the Sisi government is accused of perpetrating in Egypt”, adding, “there are a lot of things that the Sisi government is doing that are concerning”.
Sisi assumed power following a coup against the elected Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt in 2013. Responding simply, Sisi said “no doubt”.
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“We actually are scared of Hillary Clinton more”. And Abe brought up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive 12-country trade deal that the Japanese prime minister has backed and Clinton has rejected.
