Introduction to the evening news 25-06-2012

In practice, today’s dialogue round did not discuss the dialogue’s items, postponing the third round to July 24.

Instead of discussing the defense strategy, the strategy of wasting time has been adopted and the upcoming round is expected to be held during the holy month of Ramadan.       

While the dialogue table aims at promoting an atmosphere of truce, disputes on property in the town of Lassa re-surged, relatively breaching the current truce.       

On Syria, while NATO will convene tomorrow to discuss the repercussions of the Turkish plane’s downing, another incident occurred today and might exacerbate the crisis. In details, the Syrian air defenses monitored a Turkish rescue plane and defined it as a potential target. In military terms, this is the last stage before firing.         

This as the Turkish state TV announced that a Syrian major general and 38 soldiers fled to Turkey last night.        

In Egypt, the question to be asked is: How will Morsy and the military council coexist? If the council retains the right to veto any draft law or state budget and monitor the drafting of the constitution, then what is left for the elected president?         

The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Jihad Makdissi was among the most prominent figures who congratulated Morsy; "we cannot but congratulate the Egyptian people for their choice", he said.