STILLS: US Secretary of State meets Field Marshal Tantawi

Описание: (15 Jul 2012) SHOTLIST
1. STILL: Mid of Egyptian Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi shaking hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
2. Various STILLS of Clinton and Tantawi heading for meeting at Egypt's Ministry of Defence
3. STILL: Tantawi and Clinton walking into room
4. STILL: Mid of Clinton holding talks with Tantawi
STORYLINE
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday held talks with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, commander-in-chief of Egypt's Armed Forces, and, until the inauguration of President Mohammed Morsi, head of the interim governing Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Clinton was in the Egyptian capital to urge the military to work with Egypt's new Islamist leaders on a full transition to civilian rule.
Egypt's newly elected president meanwhile flew to Ethiopia on Sunday to attend an African Union summit in an attempt to rekindle Cairo's relations with the continent after years of neglect under his predecessor Mubarak.
Morsi's departure on Sunday came a day after his efforts to recall Egypt's Islamist-led parliament dissolved by the military last month suffered a setback.
An appeals court said on Saturday that it stood by another court's ruling that the chamber was invalid because a third of its members were illegally elected.
Acting on the Supreme Constitutional Court's June 14 verdict, the then-ruling military disbanded the 508-seat chamber.
Morsi defied that ruling and ordered the legislature to reconvene last week.
During a brief session of parliament on Tuesday, speaker Saad el-Katatni referred the constitutional court's ruling to the country's
highest appeals court for a legal opinion.
After a lengthy discussion on Saturday, the appeals court refused to take up the case, saying it had no jurisdiction over the implementation of the constitutional court's ruling.
It was not immediately clear how Morsi, a longtime leader of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, would respond, but Clinton had urged him on Saturday to open a dialogue with the generals as a way of preserving Egypt's transition to democracy.
Morsi and the generals who handed over power to him on June 30 are locked in a tense political standoff.
The generals, who ruled Egypt for 16 months after Mubarak's ousting, have retained vast powers.
Days before Morsi was sworn in, they issued a decree that gave themselves legislative and budgetary authority and control over the process of drafting a new constitution.
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