Egypt Denies Sending Troops To Syria

Egypt denied on Sunday November 27, 2016, a journalist about sending troops to Syria to support the Syrian regular army confirmed reports that "there are constitutional and legal action should be taken before sending any troops" abroad.

He denied a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in a statement: "Health is a brief summary of some Arab newspapers about the Egyptian military presence on the Syrian territories."
He added, "These allegations do not exist only in the imagination of those who promote them, and the goal of promoting those rumors unknown is not a secret one," stressing "Egypt's commitment to the principle of non-interference in countries' internal affairs."




The statement continued, "There is a constitutional and legal action should be taken before sending any troops or Egyptian stomach outside the borders of the state, and those procedures are not in the rough or without informing the Egyptian people to the objectives of any such move."

The Constitution provides that the public approved in 2014 on the need for prior consent of the House of Representatives by a majority of two-thirds before sending any forces outside the Egyptian border, as required by the necessity of taking the opinion of the National Defense Council in this regard.

The Arab media picked up a report in the "ambassador" of the Lebanese newspaper last Thursday confirms that "since the twelfth of this month, working in Hama air base unit includes 18 Egyptian pilots, belonging to the formation of helicopters in particular."

And it published the news after the statements made by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi channel "RTP" Portuguese in which he called for the support of national armies in the Arab countries, including the Syrian army.

In response to a question about whether Egypt can agree to participate in the UN peacekeeping force in Syria, al-Sisi said: "It is preferable that the national armies of the countries to maintain security and stability in these conditions so there are no sensitivities of the presence of other forces are working to accomplish this the mission".

He continued, "I have to support our national army, for example, in Libya to impose control over Libyan territory and deal with the extremist elements and bring about the desired stability, the same thing in Syria and the same thing in Iraq." Asked if he meant the Syrian army replied, "Yes."




It was the highest Syrian security official, Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk head of the National Security Bureau made an official visit to Cairo-day in October last, according to the official Syrian news agency.

Egyptian authorities did not deny the visit confirmed by means of an independent Egyptian media at the time.

The Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said in an interview published by the Egyptian government newspapers on September 23 last September that there is variation in the position between Cairo and Riyadh on the settlement of the conflict in Syria, especially about "the need to change the regime or the Syrian leadership."

Shukri said "There is stand by the kingdom (Saudi Arabia) was focused on the need to change the regime or the Syrian leadership, Egypt did not take this approach."