Reuters - President Hosni Mubarak declared on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, offering a mixture of concessions and defiance to Egyptians who marched a million strong to demand his 30-year-rule end immediately.
Exhilarated by having wrought once unimaginable change on the most populous Arab state in just a week of protests, many on the streets renewed their calls for the 82-year-old leader to quit now and make way for a transitional unity government.
"We will not leave! He will leave!" some chanted in Cairo.
A leading reformist figure, retired diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei, was quoted by CNN calling Mubarak's move a "trick."
Mubarak appealed over the heads of the young, urban demonstrators to the wider nation of 80 million fearful of political uncertainty. The "noble youths" who had begun protests, he said, had been exploited by men of violence.
Much may depend on the army, once Mubarak's power base, which appears to be trying to ensure a transition of power that would maintain the influence of the armed forces.
President Barack Obama, who spent half an hour on the phone to Mubarak on Tuesday, is also working for stability in a country that is a linchpin of his global strategy and where the biggest opposition movement is the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
"What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now."
Under evident pressure from Obama and the army as much as from the crowds on the streets, Mubarak delivered a composed 10-minute televised statement.
To those demanding he flee the country in the manner of his ousted Tunisian counterpart last month, Mubarak said: "This is my country ... and I will die on its soil."
But he would not give up power just yet: "I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend to nominate myself for a new presidential term," he said.
"I will work in the remaining months of my term to take the steps to ensure a peaceful transfer of power."
PROTESTERS DEFIANT
Many of those on the streets in defiance of a curfew doubted his commitment to making the kind of sweeping democratic constitutional changes which he has resisted since inheriting the mantle of the ruling military establishment in 1981.
At Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, focus of protests for a week and of unprecedented crowds of hundreds of thousands on Tuesday, young professionals in their 20s were unimpressed.
02 February 2011
Mubarak akan berundur September akan datang
KAHERAH 2 Feb. – Presiden Hosni Mubarak dalam ucapannya semalam berkata, dia akan berundur pada pilihan raya yang dijadualkan pada September akan datang.
Bagaimanapun beliau akan terus berada di pejabatnya untuk bertemu para penunjuk perasaan bagi memenuhi tuntutan mereka sepanjang tempoh itu, lapor televisyen Arab.
Laporan berita itu bagaimanapun tidak menyebutkan sumbernya. - Reuters
Reuters - President Hosni Mubarak declared on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, offering a mixture of concessions and defiance to Egyptians who marched a million strong to demand his 30-year-rule end immediately.
Exhilarated by having wrought once unimaginable change on the most populous Arab state in just a week of protests, many on the streets renewed their calls for the 82-year-old leader to quit now and make way for a transitional unity government.
"We will not leave! He will leave!" some chanted in Cairo.
A leading reformist figure, retired diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei, was quoted by CNN calling Mubarak's move a "trick."
Mubarak appealed over the heads of the young, urban demonstrators to the wider nation of 80 million fearful of political uncertainty. The "noble youths" who had begun protests, he said, had been exploited by men of violence.
Much may depend on the army, once Mubarak's power base, which appears to be trying to ensure a transition of power that would maintain the influence of the armed forces.
President Barack Obama, who spent half an hour on the phone to Mubarak on Tuesday, is also working for stability in a country that is a linchpin of his global strategy and where the biggest opposition movement is the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
"What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now."
Under evident pressure from Obama and the army as much as from the crowds on the streets, Mubarak delivered a composed 10-minute televised statement.
To those demanding he flee the country in the manner of his ousted Tunisian counterpart last month, Mubarak said: "This is my country ... and I will die on its soil."
But he would not give up power just yet: "I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend to nominate myself for a new presidential term," he said.
"I will work in the remaining months of my term to take the steps to ensure a peaceful transfer of power."
PROTESTERS DEFIANT
Many of those on the streets in defiance of a curfew doubted his commitment to making the kind of sweeping democratic constitutional changes which he has resisted since inheriting the mantle of the ruling military establishment in 1981.
At Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, focus of protests for a week and of unprecedented crowds of hundreds of thousands on Tuesday, young professionals in their 20s were unimpressed.
Reuters - President Hosni Mubarak declared on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, offering a mixture of concessions and defiance to Egyptians who marched a million strong to demand his 30-year-rule end immediately.
Exhilarated by having wrought once unimaginable change on the most populous Arab state in just a week of protests, many on the streets renewed their calls for the 82-year-old leader to quit now and make way for a transitional unity government.
"We will not leave! He will leave!" some chanted in Cairo.
A leading reformist figure, retired diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei, was quoted by CNN calling Mubarak's move a "trick."
Mubarak appealed over the heads of the young, urban demonstrators to the wider nation of 80 million fearful of political uncertainty. The "noble youths" who had begun protests, he said, had been exploited by men of violence.
Much may depend on the army, once Mubarak's power base, which appears to be trying to ensure a transition of power that would maintain the influence of the armed forces.
President Barack Obama, who spent half an hour on the phone to Mubarak on Tuesday, is also working for stability in a country that is a linchpin of his global strategy and where the biggest opposition movement is the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
"What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now."
Under evident pressure from Obama and the army as much as from the crowds on the streets, Mubarak delivered a composed 10-minute televised statement.
To those demanding he flee the country in the manner of his ousted Tunisian counterpart last month, Mubarak said: "This is my country ... and I will die on its soil."
But he would not give up power just yet: "I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend to nominate myself for a new presidential term," he said.
"I will work in the remaining months of my term to take the steps to ensure a peaceful transfer of power."
PROTESTERS DEFIANT
Many of those on the streets in defiance of a curfew doubted his commitment to making the kind of sweeping democratic constitutional changes which he has resisted since inheriting the mantle of the ruling military establishment in 1981.
At Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, focus of protests for a week and of unprecedented crowds of hundreds of thousands on Tuesday, young professionals in their 20s were unimpressed.
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