strengthening this partnership in the years to come i'm also very pleased to be with foreign minister shokriwho has become a friend as we have engaged on a number of challenges in the region and to address those jointly and with a great deal of agreement between us as to how those issues need to be addressed i look forward to my meeting with president i'll c.c. and appreciate his receiving me as well we had a very productive discussion on our shared regional and security concerns we spoke about opportunities as to how to strengthen our ties and as the foreign minister indicated mechanism by which we can deepen those ties and further explore areas for mutual cooperation first through the strategic dialogue which we've agreed we will have later this year and then we're going to explore also the possibility of a two plus two dialogue to even allow us to to further enhance these conversations both on of a full range of issues of not just security concerns but political and economic opportunities as well i did express to the foreign minister our condolences to the people of egypt for the violence

and then for foreign minister shokri the u.s. has in the past raised concerns about egypt's ties with north korea what is egypt doing to cut those ties i'm not sure i could hear the in the last part of your question. diplomatic process. well as to as to the vice president's comments about. potentially having talks and whether it's the start of a diplomatic process i think it's it's too early to judge as we've said for some time it's really up to the north koreans to decide when they're ready to engage with us and i sincere was a meaningful way they know what has to be on the table for conversations. we've said for some time that i think it's important that we have we're going to need to have some discussions that preceded any form of negotiation to determine whether the parties are in fact ready to engage in something that's meaningful in order for us to then put together the construct of a negotiation so we'll just have to wait and see. we did discuss with the secretary still is to the issues related to north korea of the korean

working with the country to defeat eisel he discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister sana shokri in cairo at the start of his middle east top to listen is set to hold talks with president abdul fattah el-sisi later he says the us and cairo share the common goal of lasting peace in the region. we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on counterterrorism measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis in egypt has been a very important member of the defeat isis coalition from the beginning they egypt deals with the threats of isis themselves and are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai we also discussed the importance of the protection and promotion of human rights in the vital role of civil society in egypt with the presidential elections planned for the end of march the united states as it does in all countries supports a transparent and credible electoral process. if that occurs. with most of the conversation was based on the bilateral relations there was a deep and genuine interest from mr tillerson with the us to continue to work and sup

the tone and content of the speech by egypt's foreign minister to the human rights council some a shokri boasted egypt created in record time a modern constitution in line with international standards to preserve human rights and fundamental freedoms but when egyptians go to vote in presidential elections in march they won't have much of a choice on the ballot or any real challenger to president abdel fattah el-sisi has either been arrested or forced to drop out human rights watch says the crackdown is a violation of the same constitution their foreign minister was so eager to highlight and of course al-jazeera as journalists more to say it has now been held in the egyptian prison for fourteen months and has still not been formally charged egypt's me an ma in syria three prime examples of how the government side of the story often stands in stark contrast to what is actually happening on the ground david chaytor al-jazeera geneva two reuters journalists imprisoned in myanmar of course the press freedom and protest at that innocence choice and wallow were denied bail after appearing in co

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