ElBaradei refuses to meet with government unless Mubarak resigns

Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said that the situation in Egypt remains in a standoff as long as President Hosni Mubarak refuses to leave. “I hope somebody will send a message, I don’t know in which way, to President Mubarak that for the sake of the country, for his own dignity, to defuse this crisis, he better step down,” ElBaradei told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria

“Everybody is ready to give him the dignified out he is entitled to as a former president of Egypt,” ElBaradei told Zakaria.

During his CNN interview Sunday, ElBaradei also said he would refuse to meet with the Egyptian government unless Mubarak steps down. Other oppositions groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have meet with the government. ElBaradei said the Egyptian people are getting confusing messages about whether Mubarak should leave office, referring to a U.S. envoy’s comments that Mubarak must stay in place during a transition of power and the Obama administration saying he should leave soon.

CNN