Buried in the depths of the article is the fact that the statement has to be a consensus..... it had been proposed by US and UK and Egypt had suggested a wording change .... to which US and UK had not responded.
So ..... it was not Egypt blocking at all! It is US and UK refusing to budge.
Now what are they refusing to budge on?
Back step a bit and recall that the current government of Turkey supported a failed coup of the current government of Egypt. So.....
the US proposal of statement was worded to make a political statement supporting the Turkey government..... t Egypt proposed that the statement instead supported principles of democracy.
Interesting. ..... and more interesting is the clear bias in the reporting from the ABC.
