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Obama's Landmark Cairo Speech

Ben Knight reported this story

on Friday, June 5, 2009

The US President Barack Obama has made a landmark speech in Cairo to the Arab and Muslim world apologising for the past mistakes of the West, challenging the Middle East to confront its own shortcomings, and promising a new relationship with the United States.

TONY EASTLEY: The US President Barack Obama has made a landmark speech in Cairo to the Arab and Muslim world, acknowledging the past mistakes of the West, challenging the Middle East to confront its own shortcomings, and promising a new relationship with the US.While he admitted one speech could not eradicate years of mistrust, he has laid the groundwork for a very different approach to what's been seen in the past.Middle East correspondent Ben Knight reports from Cairo.(Sound of American anthem)BEN KNIGHT: The band on his arrival in Egypt might have been off-key, but in his speech Barack Obama hit the right note from the beginning.BARACK OBAMA: I am honoured to be in the timeless city of Cairo and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning. I'm grateful for your hospitality and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. And I'm also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country. Assalaamu alaykum. (Applause and cheering)BEN KNIGHT: This speech has had a huge build up in the Middle East. People have been hoping and expecting the new President would redefine the relationship between Islam and the West.BARACK OBAMA: I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. And I consider part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam, wherever they appear.BEN KNIGHT: Barack Obama talked of the sins of the past - how Arab nations had suffered through colonialism and been used as proxies in the Cold War.And there was acknowledgment of more recent mistakes from Iraq to Cuba.BARACK OBAMA: I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States. (Applause) And I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.BEN KNIGHT: But the President also challenged Muslims to address their own stereotypes of the United States and to stop denying that the massacre of Jews in World War II ever happened.For Israel there was yet another demand to stop building Jewish neighbourhoods on land claimed by Palestinians.BARACK OBAMA: This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.BEN KNIGHT: Barack Obama used the word Palestine in his speech. It's usually carefully avoided in diplomacy because as yet there is no such country.But he used the word to tell Palestinians what he wanted from them in return for his support for their own state.BARACK OBAMA: Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and it does not succeed.BEN KNIGHT: There were promises to fund schools and roads in Pakistan and to develop the economies of Iraq and Afghanistan. But there were also admonishments on democracy, religious freedom, and the rights of women.But above all there was a promise to face all these challenges in good faith.As Barack Obama spoke, the streets of Cairo were all but empty. People gathered in the cafes to watch and listen.(Sound of Barack Obama on television)Many never thought they'd ever hear an American president talking this way. (Sound of man speaking in Arabic)"He's the first American president to quote the Koran," this man says. "We've never heard that before. It makes us feel very comfortable with him." But people are also reserving their final judgment. (Sound of man speaking in Arabic)"He puts his words together so neatly," says this man. "But we need him to put them into practice, because the Arab region has had enough of words."This is Ben Knight in Cairo reporting for "AM".

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