Egypt cuts ties with Syria

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi announces it is cutting ties with war-torn Syria.
Speaking to thousands of supporters in a Cairo stadium Saturday, Morsi says Egypt “decided today to definitively break off relations with the current regime in Syria.”
Morsi says the Syrian embassy in Cairo will be closed down and the government will recall Egypt’s charge d’affaires from Damascus. Calling on the international community to impose a “no-fly zone” over Syria, Morsi says he contacted Arab and Muslim states to organize an emergency support meeting for the Syrian people.He also denounces the intervention of the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which helped government troops to win the the central Syrian town of Qusayr. The Egyptian government has long called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. Egypt is Sunni Muslim, as are the vast majority of rebels fighting to overthrow al-Assad.

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