Egypt Blocks UN Call to Respect ‘Democratically Elected’ Government in Turkey
Egypt showed objection on the draft statement of the UN’s Security Council (SC) on the attempted coup d’état in Turkey, and demanded it gets edited. The statement pronounced the SC’s condemnation of the attempted coup d’état, which took at least 161 lives, and called on all parties “to respect the democratically elected government of Turkey.” The reps of the Egyptian government in the Council protested against that last part.
The Egyptian diplomats argued that the SC is not in position to determine whether a government has been democratically elected or not. “We proposed different language that respects democratic and constitutional principles but the Americans refused to engage,” Egypt’s UN Ambassador Amr Aboulatta told Reuters.
The US and British reps objected to the changes Egypt proposed. Egypt re-proposed that the Council calls on the parties in Turkey to “respect the democratic and constitutional principles and the rule of law,” diplomats said. The SC called it a day and left things at that point, failing to issue the statement.
News people all over the world were taken by surprise to find Turkey experiencing its 6th coup d’état putting the commander-in-chief in custody of coup soldiers and forcing the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to escape to the Atatürk airport.
WE SAID THIS: It didn’t take the Turkish government more than three hours to neutralize these rebel soldiers and thwart the coup d’état, by wide arrests of about 3,000 military personnel until now.
