Waiting for statement as army meets with leaders

3 July 2013, 5:08 pm

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Egyptian military leaders are meeting with opposition and other figures ahead of an official statement.

“The General Command of the Armed Forces is currently meeting with a number of religious, national, political and youth icons … There will be a statement issued from the General Command as soon as they are done,” the army said in a post on its official Facebook page, according to a Reuters translation.

Everybody is waiting to hear what the Egyptian army will do. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent Nicole Johnson, at a rally of Morsi supporters in Giza, says everybody is calm and that “the ball is in the military’s court.”