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Soldiers carry the coffins of fellow soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Sinai on Friday during a military funeral in Cairo, October 25, 2014. REUTERS/The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via Reuters
CAIRO, Nov 2 (Aswat Masriya) - The June 30 fact-finding committee submitted on Sunday the part of its report which addresses the situation in the Sinai Peninsula to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The committee, established by former interim President Adly Mansour to investigate violent acts which took place since June 2013, is scheduled to issue its full report on November 21.
The Sunday report included the outcome of the committee's field trips to the Peninsula, well as detailed information about the "extremist" groups operating there, said presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef. He added, in a press statement, that the report listed the "terrorist" attacks committed in Sinai.
The committee provided in its report a set of recommendations to facilitate the development process in Sinai, Youssef said.
Militants have stepped up attacks targeting security forces in Egypt, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, since the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013, which followed mass protests against his rule.
Mansour ordered the committee's formation last December to gather data and evidence on events that occurred during and after the June 30 protests which led to Mursi's military ouster.
The committee's initial deadline was due six months since its establishment. The deadline was nevertheless extended for three extra months, to be on September 21. One day before the reaching new deadline, Sisi postponed it once again until November 21.
Sisi ordered on Sunday that the committee's full report be made public in an "international press conference" once it is ready for release.
Muslim Brotherhood members have often refused to cooperate with the committee, under the pretext that it is affiliated with the authorities.
Fouad Abdel Moneim Riad, the committee's chairman, has repeatedly described the committee as "neutral" and not affiliated with the government.