WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will meet Egypt's first Islamist leader, the recently elected Mohamed Morsi, at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, a US official told AFP on Sunday.
The United States has reached out carefully to Morsi as US officials predict a more complicated and less predictable relationship with the key Arab nation.
Morsi of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood was last month proclaimed to be Egypt's first democratically elected president, a year and a half after street protests toppled veteran strongman and US ally Hosni Mubarak.
Despite Morsi's Islamist background, the confirmation of his election brought relief to Obama's administration which feared that the military would not accept his victory and provoke new chaos in Egypt.
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The United States has reached out carefully to Morsi as US officials predict a more complicated and less predictable relationship with the key Arab nation.
Morsi of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood was last month proclaimed to be Egypt's first democratically elected president, a year and a half after street protests toppled veteran strongman and US ally Hosni Mubarak.
Despite Morsi's Islamist background, the confirmation of his election brought relief to Obama's administration which feared that the military would not accept his victory and provoke new chaos in Egypt.
THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Middle East :: Obama to meet Egypt president in US in September
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