State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton,in her calls to the Pakistani leadership on Saturday, urged a non-violent settlement of the confrontation with the opposition and said that there should be no impediments to peaceful, democratic assembly.
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And that includes the right to peacefulassembly, to peaceful protest, to peaceful speech.
Those who have exercised their right to peacefulassembly represent the greatness of the Egyptian people, and are broadly representative of Egyptian society.
Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.