Post date: Jan 31, 2011 8:53:18 PM
The U.S. says it will not take sides between the people in the streets and the government in Egypt. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
USA-EGYPT WHITE HOUSE - As people takes to the streets for the seventh day in a row calling for change in Egypt, the United States says it will not take sides between the people and the government.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, saying:
"We are not picking between those on the street and those in the government."
The White House says the crisis in Egypt should be settled by meaningful talks among a broad cross-section of the country.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, saying:
"There has to be meaningful negotiations with a broad cross section of people including opposition groups that go to answering the very core of what people desire."
Earlier Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a new cabinet but that didi little to quiet the streets.
The uprising, unprecedented in scale and intensity in this once tightly-controlled country, erupted last week over poverty and the lack of democracy under Mubarak.
About 140 people have been killed in clashes with security forces.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.