Armenian community of Egypt has great expectations from the new government in terms of improving situation in the county. They hope their conditions will improve, head of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Egypt Berdj Terzian told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“We will wait till the situation will get better step by step. When the situation in the country improves, the state of Armenians will get better, too,” he said speaking on the phone.

Berdj Terzian said there are around 5-7 thousand Armenians residing in Egypt. Five thousand are residing in Cairo and 2,000 - in Alexandria. He noted that political events did not affect the Armenian community.

As informed earlier, a military coup in Egypt resulted in overthrowing Mohamed Morsi. The army suspended constitution and announced holding of fresh presidential elections. President of Constitutional Court Adli Mansour was appointed the president of an interim government.