People's Assembly Speaker Dr. Fathi Srour said that Egypt is a State of law and the crucial decisions are made according to the Constitution and the law, not the Mosque nor the Church.

He affirmed that inserting the principle of citizenship in the new Constitutional amendments does not dispute with the Islamic Shariaa (Muslim Law).

During his lecture before the Khartoum-based Lawyers' Syndicate in the Sudan, Sorour added that President Hosni Mubarak seeks gradual incorporation of the new amendments to the Constitution as he started with Article 76, then he later proposed the current 34 amendments, said the Parliament Speaker.

President Mubarak aimed by such a gradual insertion of amendments that the Constitution and its amendments would be made by the Egyptian people, not the elite and the professors of the Constitutional Law, added Dr. Sorour.

He further set it forth that the Legislative Committee will start on next February 18 its first meeting in the heels of a one-month deadline allocated for receiving the deputies proposals, said the Speaker.

The Legislative Committee will submit its final report in the wake of March 18, added the Speaker stressing that there was no specific or already approved formulations.