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The U.S. State Department must decide by Sept. 14 whether to withhold a portion of the roughly $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee urges Egypt to immediately release academic Salah Soltan amid ‘neglect in prison’.
The State Department’s latest budget calls for steep cuts to US economic aid to several countries in the Middle East while largely sustaining military aid.
The arms transfer policy takes into account how US weapons sales could be used to commit rights abuses.
Countries in the region have received little attention from US officials in the run-up to the meeting, as Washington neglected the continent and is lagging in its influence compared to Russia and China.