Foreign mediation in ending political deadlock in Egypt doomed for failure: Report

Egypt's interim government is expected to announce that foreign mediation designed to end the country's political crisis has failed.

Envoys from the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been pushing to resolve the crisis and avert further bloodshed between ousted president Mohammed Morsi's backers and the security forces.

But the report from al-Ahram dashed hopes of a breakthrough and put the blame on the Muslim Brotherhood's intransigence.

The newspaper said the interim government would announce 'the failure of all US, European, Qatari and UAE delegations in convincing the Brotherhood of a peaceful solution to the current crisis,' the report said.

It said the government would declare that Muslim Brotherhood protests against Morsi's ouster were non-peaceful, a signal that it intends to end them by force.

According to stuff.co.nz, the report appeared hours after two senior US senators gave a strong message to the military, saying it should release political prisoners and start a national dialogue to return Egypt to democratic rule.

The government had allowed the envoys to visit jailed Brotherhood leaders in order to give a peaceful solution a chance.

According to the report, but it now considered Morsi's overthrow a fait accompli and would proceed with its own 'road map' for elections in nine months, al-Ahram said.