Egypt’s Sisi says calls to protest ‘no reason for concern’
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Friday
there was no cause for concern over protests against his rule that are planned
for later in the day.
“There are no reasons for concern. Egypt is a strong
country thanks to Egyptians,” he told reporters with a smile, shortly after his
return from the UN General Assembly in New York.
Sisi said there are those who are trying to thwart
Egypt and “will not succeed thanks to the awareness of the people.”
He added that if he asked the public for a mandate,
“millions of people would respond by taking to the streets.”
“The case does not deserve all” this attention, Sisi
said, adding that calls for protests are “an attempt to create an image that is
absolutely not real.”
“Do not listen to what they say. Do not believe
them,” he urged, without naming those responsible for calling the protests
against him.
