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"Our main aim is to promote liberal ideas", says Foundation’s Regional Director

In an interview published in the Egyptian daily newspaper Nahdet Misr on September 10, 2008, the Regional Director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Dr. Ronald Meinardus, gave a comprehensive overview of the Foundation’s programs and objectives in this part of the world. "Our main aim is to promote liberal ideas and concepts and to strengthen civil society and liberal political parties," Dr. Meinardus stated. He refuted the claim that the Foundation interferes in the internal affairs of political institutions in the host countries: We are "an international liberal educative institute", he said. "We have not interfered and we will not interfere in the internal political affairs of any Egyptian institution."


Nahdet Misr journalist interviewing FNF-Regional Director Dr. Ronald Meinardus

Dr. Meinardus expressed a positive perspective for liberalism in this part of the world: "Egyptians are just as much interested in freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law, good governance as social progress as other people in other parts of the world", he said.

He called the relationship between Egypt and Germany "very solid, deep and also friendly" and explained that FNF aims at bringing together Egyptian and European liberals: "We consider this to be our contribution to the partnership and the friendship of our two nations", the Foundation’s official said.

Read the full text of the interview in Nahdet Misr.

 
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Egypt : www.fnst-egypt.org