The United States has funded to the tune of tens of millions of organizations promoting democracy in Egypt to the chagrin President Hosni Mubarak, according to notes obtained by Wikileaks and published Friday by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten .
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have planned to spend $ 66.5 million in 2008 and 75 million in 2009 to Egyptian programs on democracy and good governance, according to a note from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo from December 6, 2007.
"President Mubarak is deeply skeptical about the role of the United States in promoting democracy," said another diplomatic telegram dated 9 October 2007. "However, U.S. government programs to help establish democratic institutions and strengthen the voices of individuals in favor of a change in Egypt," added the American note. According to Aftenposten
, who said he recovered in a manner remained obscure all the diplomatic 250,000 documents obtained by Wikileaks, the United States has thus contributed directly to "develop forces that oppose the President" Mubarak.
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The second note indicates that the amounts paid by the United States to promote democracy covered both programs commissioned by the Egyptian government itself and financial assistance to Egyptian NGOs and American active in this field.
Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga have requested in a letter to the embassy that USAID continues to fund ten of these organizations "on the ground (they) were not properly registered as an NGO," said a third note of February 28, 2008.
Generally regarded as the designated successor of President Mubarak's son Gamal is also described as "irritable on direct U.S. funding for democracy and good governance", according to a fourth note of October 20, 2008.
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