Live! McCain urges US to suspend Egypt military aid

July 07, 2013 00:10

US Republican Senator John McCain has called on the US government to suspend financial aid to the Egyptian army, following a military coup that overthrew the elected president Mohamed Morsi.

"We have to suspend aid to Egyptian military because the military has overturned the vote of the people,' McCain, who is also a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said on Friday. "We cannot repeat the same mistakes that we made in other times of our history by supporting removal of freely elected governments.'

McCain said that Washington should demand Egyptian army to set a timetable for elections and for making of a new constitution.

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