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“I call on the Syrian government to allow immediate access to the area for the UN team currently investigating previous allegations of chemical weapons use. The UK will be raising this incident at the UN Security Council.”
King Abdullah warned against the “danger of manipulating religion for political purposes and sowing the seeds of hateful ethnic and intra-religious sectarian division.”
Abdullah said Muslims should respect democracy and make it inclusive. “Majoritarian rule is not the essence of democracy because democracy is achieved when all share the feeling that they are truly represented. This is the essence of political consensus in Islam,” he added
It will take “years or maybe decades” for the turmoil in the Middle East to “play itself out,” UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has told BBC News.
“We have to do our best to support democratic institutions” without taking sides, he added.
“Tthe EU should be clear and united in its message: the violence must end immediately and there needs to be a political dialogue, involving all sides, that leads to genuine democracy.”
US President Barack Obama: “The United States strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by Egypt’s interim government and security forces…We deplore violence against civilians. We support universal rights essential to human dignity, including the right to peaceful protest…While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back.”
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey: “We have better military options than we did a year ago. That’s because we’ve continued to refine them. We’ve continued to develop technology, we’ve continued to train and plan.”