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"Mr President, colleagues will have received an e-mail from me on Monday describing my experiences during an informal visit to Cairo last weekend. It was a privilege to be there as Vice-President for Democracy and Human Rights.
Mr Kasoulides referred to the role of young people in the recent revolution in Egypt. He is absolutely right. They played a fundamental role. I spoke just a few moments ago to one of the organisers and said, ‘Are you still optimistic?’ He said, ‘Of course I am. Things are going in the right direction.’
But there are problems. The timetable for elections is wrong and the timetable for reforming the Constitution is far too short. We need much more time. We are talking about Egypt, but this process is spreading. It
like 1989 and the European Union needs special procedures – this House, the Commission, the Council, the EAS – and we welcome Cathy Ashton’s down payment for democracy, but we need to do more. We need to reward reform.
As I said in Cairo on Sunday – and I hope to be saying it among other peoples – ‘I am not here as a Briton or as a European, I am here as an honorary Egyptian.’ I still am."@en1
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