U.S.-Egyptian Relations Returning to ‘Stronger Base': Kerry

During the first strategic dialogue between the United States and Egypt since 2009, Secretary of State John Kerry said the relationship between the two countries is returning to a "stronger base," despite concerns over human rights and democratic reform. 

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said that he and Kerry had no major disagreements with the United States but that there were "differences in points of views over some issues, which is natural."

After Egypt's fifth president, Mohamed Morsi of the Freedom and Justice Party, was removed from power in 2013 during protests, tensions between the United States and the country have risen. 

Egypt remains one of the United States' closet security allies in the Middle East, an area increasingly affected by turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. 

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