Mr
Morsi reportedly said forging closer relations “will create a
balance of pressure in the region, and this is part of my programme”.
Fars said he was speaking a few hours before the result of the Egyptian
election was announced on Sunday, and that a full version of the interview
would be published later.
Mr Morsi was declared the winner of a divisive presidential run-off, becoming
the first Islamist to be elected president of the Arab world’s most populous
nation.
He won 51.73 per cent of the vote against ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq, and vowed
to be a leader for all Egyptians.
“I will be a president for all Egyptians,” Mr Morsi said just hours
after he was declared the winner.
“I call on you, great people of Egypt … to strengthen our national
unity,” he added. National unity “is the only way out of these
difficult times”.
Israeli media expressed almost unanimous concern over his victory on Monday
morning.
“Darkness in Egypt,” read the headline of the top-selling Yediot
Aharonot newspaper, with commentator Smadar Peri writing inside the
newspaper that Morsi’s victory was a dangerous development for Israel.
“From our standpoint, when the presidential palace in Cairo is painted
for the first time in Islamic colours, this is a black and dark day,”
she wrote.
The election came after 18 months of a tumultuous military-led transition from
Mubarak’s rule, marked by political upheaval and bloodshed.
Hundreds of thousands of Morsi supporters erupted in celebration in Cairo’s
Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of the uprising that brought down the
Mubarak regime in February 2011.
Cheering Egyptians waved flags and posters of the Islamist leader, who was
jailed during last year’s uprising.
“God is greatest” and “down with military rule” they
chanted, as fireworks went off over the square.
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