Egypt Under Pressure After Weekend Violence

Negotiations are continuing in Egypt today after defiant pro-Morsi supporters vowed to sacrifice their "blood and souls" for the ousted president.

Several thousand Morsi supporters marched towards Cairo's military intelliegence HQ last night despite army warnings to stay away.

They chanted "Our blood and souls we sacrifice for Morsi" as they made their way towards the military HQ from the site of a peaceful vigil outside a mosque in northern Cairo.

Eventually the group turned back, but the march raises fears over what will happen next in the stand-off between the army and members of the Brotherhood.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has flown into Egypt for talks as international pressure increases on the new regime over the weekend's violence, which claimed more than 80 lives.

The country's new rulers warned they would take "decisive and firm" action against protesters if they went beyond their right to peaceful demonstration.

Egypt's vice presidency said Ashton would meet with interim president Adly Mansour and Mohamed ElBaradei, who is vice president for international affairs. ElBaradei on Saturday night denounced the "excessive use of force" against protesters.

State news agency MENA said Ashton would also hold talks with members of the deposed president's Muslim Brotherhood and the Tamarod group that organised the huge protests that led up to his overthrow by the army.

"I deeply deplore the loss of life," said Ashton in a statement, adding that she would be pressing the need for all sides to be included in the return to democracy, "including the Muslim Brotherhood".

UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Egypt's interim leadership on Sunday that every death made it harder to drag the country out of its crisis, a spokeswoman said.

Ban "expressed his profound concern about the direction in which the transition in Egypt is moving" and condemned the heightened violence, UN spokeswoman Morana Song said.

He called on the authorities to protect "all Egyptians, regardless of party affiliation", Song added.

But tensions remained high after Saturday's killings, the bloodiest incident since Morsi's overthrow on July 3.

Egypt's presidency reacted on Sunday to the bloodshed a day earlier.

"We are saddened by the spilling of blood on the 27th," Mansour adviser Moustafa Hegazy told reporters.

But he dubbed the protest area where the deaths occurred a "terror-originating spot" and said "we cannot decouple this from context of terrorism".

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