Dissolving Brotherhood not solution to current crisis: Egyptian PM

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CAIRO, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi said dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood group isn't a solution to the ongoing political crisis, softening his rhetoric regarding the Islamist group, official news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.

"Dissolving the group or its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is not the solution, and it is wrong to make decisions under turbulent condition," MENA quoted Beblawi as saying in an interview with the privately-owned satellite TV channel MBC Masr late Tuesday.

"It is better for us to monitor parties and groups in the framework of politics without dissolving them or letting them act in secret," said Beblawi, pointing out that abiding by the laws will be the criteria for members of the group or its party to determine its fate.

On Aug. 17, Beblawi has officially proposed to the minister of social affairs, who is responsible for licensing non-governmental organizations, to dissolve the brotherhood group as it was not legally established.

Founded in 1928, the Brotherhood had been dissolved in 1954 after opposing publically the Anglo-Egyptian pact signed by late president Gamal Abdel Nasser and the British government.

Secretly working as a charitable organization during the following decades, the group established its political arm FJP in 2011 after toppling President Hosni Mubarak. It won the most parliament seats in the last elections in 2012.

In early July, the group staged sit-ins to show support to ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, but the sit-iners were dispersed by security forces, which killed nearly 1,000 people, including about 100 policemen.

Thousands of the group members, including the Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood Guidance Bureau Mohamed Badie and his two deputies, were arrested over charges of inciting violence and killing anti- Morsi protesters.

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