"Secretary Hagel and Egyptian Minister of Defense Gen. al-Sisi spoke again by phone this morning," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a Thursday statement.
"They discussed the interim government's progress along the political roadmap, lifting of the curfew and state of emergency, and the security situation in the Sinai and the Suez Canal," the spokesman said.
"They both reflected on the continued importance of the US-Egypt military relationship and agreed to remain in close contact with one another," he added.
Washington recently suspended the delivery of tanks, helicopters and fighter jets and withheld $260 million in military assistance to Egypt to signal its dissatisfaction with the slow pace of democratic reform following the July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, by the military establishment.
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