Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II and other clergymen met with the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, at Saint Mark Cathedral yesterday (June 17). During the hour and a quarter long meeting they discussed recent developments in Egyptian affairs, including Coptic rights. Pope Tawadros raised his concerns about the growing number of exit visas issued for Copts and the number of sectarian incidents. He also called President Muhammad Mursi's (Mūrsī) government diasspointing and dominated by neoconservative elements, therefore Egyptians have the legitimacy to demands their rights on June 30 (Sarah Hāmid and Mustafá Sha'bān, al-Misrīyūn, Jun. 18, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.