US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with a child as she takes an unannounced walk through Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, March 16, 2011
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Wednesday, the second day of her visit to Egypt to promote democratic reforms.
Moussa, 74, is a veteran Egyptian diplomat and has announced his candidacy for the country's presidency.
Earlier Wednesday, Clinton toured Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the pro-democracy uprising that led to last month's resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Clinton said visiting the square was a "great reminder of the power of the human spirit and desire for freedom and human rights and democracy."
She was welcomed by Egyptian citizens and shook hands with passersby in the square before meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf.
Clinton is also scheduled to meet with pro-democracy activists and members of Egypt's civil society. She is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Egypt since the anti-government protests.
On Tuesday, she told Egyptians this "moment in history" belongs to them. Clinton commented from Cairo in a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby. Clinton arrived in Cairo Tuesday after attending a Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting in Paris. After wrapping up talks in Egypt, she travels to Tunisia - the starting point of the pro-democracy movement that has swept through much of the Middle East and North Africa this year. (VOA)
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