In September 2014, she and Bill Clinton met with the Egyptian president during the UNGA meetings.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton met Egypt´s president in NY on Monday as the two U.S. presidential candidates tried to bolster their diplomatic credentials at the United Nations.
And once again, he was dogged by critics – although, to be fair, so was his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton – for her own meeting with the Egyptian strongman, on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in NY.
Sisi also met Hillary Clinton for an hour, with aides later saying they had discussed issues ranging from counter-terrorism to human rights.
It said that Trump’s campaign also released a statement saying Trump “highlighted how Egypt and the USA share a common enemy and the importance of working together in defeating radical Islamic terrorism”.
Donald Trump is planning to meet with the president of Egypt in NY, in his first stab at global diplomacy since his surprise trip to Mexico where he promoted a border wall and met with the Mexican president.
Sisi is the second foreign leader Trump has met with since becoming the Republican nominee.
Clinton had been secretary of state when the U.S. helped push Egypt’s longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak from power after a popular uprising, but was seen as less pro-active than other members of Obama’s cabinet in cutting loose a crucial, long-standing USA ally. In the initial days of the 2011 uprising against Mubarak’s regime, she threw her support behind Mubarak before later shifting course. The ruling is part of a case against rights groups and campaigners accused of illegally receiving funds and using them to harm national security.
If only we could still see ourselves the way Sisi sees us.
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On Saturday, a Cairo court upheld a decision to freeze the assets of five prominent human rights campaigners in what critics described as the latest blow to a once-vibrant activist community. According to their findings, almost 500 people were killed by Egyptian security forces that year.
