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March 2, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=112610

Mubarak: Rapid Reforms Recipe for Chaos

(Reuters/Gulf News-Dubai) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under pressure from Washington to promote reform in the Middle East, said Monday that instant freedoms would lead to anarchy and it would then be hard to pick up the pieces. "Nobody imagines that we can press a button and freedoms will arrive. Otherwise it would lead the country to chaos, and that would be a danger to people....If you opened the door wide open without any controls, it would be anarchy, and to go back and gather people up again would be difficult." Mubarak said Egypt had been carrying out reforms for years, but that the Arab world had different traditions and customs from Europe and America.

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