The party leaders signed the document during a meeting with Egypt’s top religious authority in a bid to find a solution to the ongoing deadly violence in the African country.
Signatories included Egypt’s opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei, Hamdeen Sabahi of the National Salvation Front, Head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party Saad El-Katatni, and Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy leader Mahmoud Ezzat.
There is “no solution to the problems of the path of democratic transition except through dialogue,” El-Katatni said.
“Participants showed a readiness to offer compromises to make this initiative a success,” he added.
The meeting, chaired by Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, head of al-Azhar mosque and university, comes as the Egyptian crisis enters its second week and efforts to resolve it have made little or no progress.
The ongoing violence in Egypt has left 54 people dead since January 25 when the country marked the second anniversary of the revolution that ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The opposition accuses President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood party of monopolizing power, but the Brotherhood says Morsi’s adversaries are bent on toppling Egypt’s first elected leader.
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