Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi addressed the UN General Assembly last night (Tuesday).
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She spent more than an hour in private discussions with the Egyptian leader, with aides later saying they had discussed issues ranging from counter-terrorism to human rights.
The report disclosed that in rapid succession, Clinton met briefly with Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Sisi has been the military-backed leader of Egypt since 2014; he emerged following a power struggle following the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s government.
“I don’t want to comment specifically on who but a couple of people are coming over”. In the first year of his reign, Egyptian authorities “detained, charged, or sentenced at least 41,000 people”.
Trump’s campaign released a statement saying that Trump “highlighted how Egypt and the USA share a common enemy and the importance of working together in defeating radical Islamic terrorism”.
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”.
Clinton said that’s why she’s been “very clear, we’re going after the bad guys and we’re going to get them, but we’re not going to go after an entire religion and give ISIS exactly what it’s wanting”.
The session also resonated because of Trump’s praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month.
Sisi is the second foreign leader Trump has met with since becoming the Republican nominee.
Besides this, the Egyptian president is also expected to hold a set of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from France, Jordan, Palestine, and the United Kingdom, as well the U.S. democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and Sen.
He told delegates he was departing from the written text of his speech to make an appeal that will bring “prosperity and peace to both the Israelis and the Palestinians”. Responding simply, Sisi said “no doubt”.
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“These human rights organizations are documenting violations and abuses and defending the freedoms enshrined in Egypt’s constitution, and this decision comes against a wider backdrop of closing space for Egyptian civil society”, he said in a statement Sunday. Al-Sisi has faced a backlash from both national and global activists for turning a blind eye to his country’s arbitrary detentions and crackdown on dissent.
