{"id":47,"date":"2013-07-26T04:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T01:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-10-28T00:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T22:25:46","slug":"egyptian-army-gives-brotherhood-48-hours-to-join-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/egyptian-army-gives-brotherhood-48-hours-to-join-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian army gives Brotherhood 48 hours to join roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Sisi.jpg\" alt=\"Sisi\" width=\"485\" height=\"300\" class=\"align top size-full wp-image-48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Al Arabiya<br \/>\nThe Muslim Brotherhood has until Saturday afternoon to sign up to political reconciliation, said statement on a military-linked website Thursday, on the eve of pro-army rallies.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will not initiate any move, but will definitely react harshly against any calls for violence or black terrorism from Brotherhood leaders or their supporters. We pledge to protect peaceful protesters regardless of their affiliation,\u201d Reuters reported the statement as saying.<br \/>\nThe statement said that the military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued the ultimatum in a Wednesday speech for all Egyptians \u201cto return to the national fold and prepare for the future.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 48-hour deadline also comes after Sisi has called for mass rallies on Friday to give him a \u201cmandate\u201d to fight what he called \u201cterrorism and violence.\u201d<br \/>\nThe statement appeared on an unofficial Facebook account with ties to the top council of military generals.<br \/>\nA senior army official told AFP that the statement did not reflect the military\u2019s point of view, although it appeared on a \u201cpage with links to the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 48-hour ultimatum is a political invitation,\u201d the officer said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that after 48 hours we are going to crack down.\u201d<br \/>\nAfter the ouster of President Mohammed Mursi, a Brotherhood politician, on July 3, the installed an interim administration has set out a roadmap for a new political transition leading to parliamentary elections in about six months.<br \/>\nWashington urges for restraint<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the White House on Thursday urged the Egyptian military to exercise \u201cmaximum restraint\u201d and to do its utmost to prevent clashes between rival protesters.<br \/>\n\u201cThe administration has urged the security forces to exercise maximum restraint and caution,\u201d White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One as President Barack Obama headed for Florida.<br \/>\nEarnest said Washington was concerned about \u201cany rhetoric that inflames tension\u201d after Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Egyptians to take to the streets to show their support.<br \/>\nMursi supporters and the army that toppled him prepared for rival protests on Friday.<br \/>\n(With AFP and Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Arabiya The Muslim Brotherhood has until Saturday afternoon to sign up to political reconciliation, said statement on a military-linked website Thursday, on the eve of pro-army rallies. \u201cWe will not initiate any move, but will definitely react harshly against any calls for violence or black terrorism from Brotherhood leaders or their supporters. We pledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-16","category-world"],"views":592,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}