UN's reports as a useful way to make the government listen more attentively to the views they have already raised with it directly.

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Asked what President Hosni Mubarak should do now, the Secretary-General said that it is important for the Egyptian leadership to listen more attentively and carefully to what the genuine wishes of its people are.

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It also explains his insulting and politically inept habit of suggesting whether the issue is health care, or Arab-Israeli peace, or change we can believe in at some point in God's good time that the fault always lies in the failure of his audiences to listen attentively.

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