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Vice President says rapid reforms could bring chaos in Egypt

CAIRO : Egypt 's Vice President Omar Suleiman Tuesday cautioned against hasty political reforms as hundreds of thousand
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Suleiman, recently appointed by Mubarak who made a series of

Concession recently after unprecedented anti-government protests, also said the government would not brook civil disobedience.

"Dialogue and understanding are the first way to achieve stability

-to exits the crisis peacefully, with a programme of continuous steps to solve all problems," official media quoted him as saying.

"The second, alternative way, would be a coup and we need to avoid hasty and uncalculated steps that produce more irrationality," Suleiman said the government would continue talking with different political faction and youth who spear-headed the protests, "affirming there will be no ending of the regime, nor a coup, because that means chaos," MENA reported.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011