The Arabs renew their warning over prescribing reforms
Regional-USA, Politics, 6/11/2004

The Egyptian foreign minister Ahmad Maher said yesterday on the occasion of the G-8 summit held in the USA on Wednesday adoption of the partnership initiative with the vast Middle East and North Africa that reform should stem from the inside but Cairo does not oppose external aid to implement that.

Maher said that "Egypt's position is principled before or after the convening of this summit and it is reflected in that Egypt is an advocate of reforms, rather started an actual reformation operation since a while led by President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak."

He added this requires " the need that the reform to be stemmed from the country's concerned according to its own conditions." For his part, the Sudanese foreign minister Othman Ismael said commenting on the G-8 summit " I do not find a problem in accepting this statement after studying it " as far as it confirms that the reforms should not be imposed from the outisde." In Amman, a Jordanian official statement said " the initiatives which are viewed as prescribed from the outside will only be leading to damaging the actual eforts of reformers in our region."

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