Muslim Brotherhood Denies Giving US Assurances on Treaty with “Israel”

The official in the "Muslim Brotherhood" movement Ibrahim Munir denied Friday that "the group has given any assurances to Washington about the respect of the agreement with the Zionist entity of "Israel"."

In a televised interview, Munir declared that "the issue is to be presented to the Egyptian people in a referendum to decide their position from it."
This came as US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland indicated that "the Egyptian Islamist party provided assurances regarding the country's peace treaty with "Israel"."

Earlier this week, the Muslim Brotherhood, the overwhelming victorious in the first round of elections for the Egyptian Parliament, announced that "it would not recognize the Zionist entity and intends to bring the "Israeli"-Egyptian peace treaty to a referendum."

Referring to a recent on the Muslim Brotherhood member interview with "al- Hayat" daily, where he said that the treaty with "Israel" is not binding, Nuland said: "We've seen this press report. I would say that it is one member of the Muslim Brotherhood. We have‬ had other assurances from the party with regard to their commitment not only to universal human rights, but to the international obligations that the Government of Egypt has undertaken."

The US official added by saying that, "as we've said again and again, not only with regard to Egypt but with regard to other states in that region in transition, we expect that legitimate parties will not only support universal human rights, but will also continue to support international obligations made by their governments they have made commitments to us along those regards, and as I said, we will judge these parties by what they do."

Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org