EU FMs to hold urgent talks on Egypt on Wednesday
02:51, 20 August 2013
BRUSSELS. August 20. KAZINFORM - The foreign ministers of the European Union's 28 member states are to hold emergency talks on Wednesday to review the bloc's relations with Egypt, Kazinform has learned from Xinhua.
The decision was agreed by senior diplomats holding a emergency meeting on Monday as international concern mounts at the escalation in violence in Egypt.
The EU promised Egypt in November a total of 5 billion euros in grants and loans for a series of initiatives for Egypt.
Before Monday's meeting of the senior diplomats of the EU member states, it was reported that they might recommend a suspension of EU's Egypt aid as a result of the police crack-down in Egypt which has led to hundreds of deaths.