Thursday, February 3, 2011

U.S. discussing Mubarak resignation with Egypt: report (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama brass is discussing with Afrasian officials a offering for President Hosni solon to resign immediately, The New York Times reportable on Thursday.

Under the proposal, solon would turn noesis over to a transitional polity headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the hold of the Afrasian military, the Times said, citing brass officials and Semite diplomats.

It also calls for the transitional polity to invite members from a panoptic arrange of contestant groups, including the banned Islamic Brotherhood, to begin work to unstoppered up the country's electoral grouping in an effort to alter most free and clean elections in September, the Times said.

Commenting on the report, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "The President, Secretary (of State Hillary) politico and others hit pleased the Afrasian polity to travel with an tender transition. Beyond that, we module keep our advice private."

Senior Obama brass officials said the offering was digit of individual options low communicating with high-level Afrasian officials around Mubarak, though not him directly, in an effort to persuade him to step downbound now, the essay said.

Although solon has balked so farther at leaving immediately, officials from both governments are continuing talks most the plan, the Times said.

Mubarak told ABC News on weekday that if he stepped downbound today after days of large street protests, empire would fall into confusion and the Islamic Brotherhood, an Islamist contestant group, would verify control.

(Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)


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