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Egyptian TV anchor describes British ambassador in Cairo as ‘ill-mannered’

August 31, 2015 at 12:51 pm

Well-known Egyptian television anchor Ahmad Musa has sparked controversy by speaking out against the British ambassador to his country.

During his TV programme I take responsibility, aired on Al-Mihwar channel on Sunday, Musa said that: “The British ambassador in Cairo is insolent, lacking in taste and knows nothing about diplomacy and ethics.”

He went on to say: “We salute the Foreign Ministry for summoning him. Either he talks well about Egypt or he gets hit on the head with diplomacy.”

He pointed out that Western states are the ones who violated Egyptian sovereignty and that the rest of the world should stand up to them “whenever they intervene in our internal affairs”.

The Egyptian government has summoned the British ambassador John CassonJohn Casson who said he was ‘shocked and concerned by the sentences’ at the retrial of the three Al Jazeera journalists.