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  • Shoukry asks UNSC to shoulder its responsibility to reach binding deal on GERD 3 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:51:41 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:157 - ID:9052184

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that all measures taken by Ethiopia over the past 10 years leaned against claims of “injustice”, a matter which is baseless, in order to avert entering a binding agreement. “Egypt acknowledged Ethiopia’s right ....

  • Shoukry asks UNSC to shoulder its responsibility to reach binding deal on GERD

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:50:52 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:156 - ID:9052176

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry asked the UN Security Council (UNSC) to shoulder its responsibility and work on resuming talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under the sponsorship of the African Union ....

  • Egypt facing 'existential threat' due to Ethiopia's GERD on Nile: FM tells UNSC 10 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:48:29 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:155 - ID:9052159

    In the absence of an agreement that regulates its filling and operation, the GERD can cause cumulative water shortages in Egypt amounting to 120 billion cubic meters, it will diminish access to clean drinking water, it could deprive millions of ....

  • Egypt facing 'existential threat' due to Ethiopia's GERD on Nile: FM tells UNSC 9 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:46:46 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:154 - ID:9052160

    However, after a year of faltering negotiations …… and despite the highly appreciated good offices and untiring efforts of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during their ....

  • Egypt facing 'existential threat' due to Ethiopia's GERD on Nile: FM tells UNSC 8 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:40:08 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:152 - ID:9052137

    Ethiopia is also seeking to use the GERD negotiations as a back-door through which to consecrate an unlimited and an unregulated right to construct future projects along the Blue Nile and has demanded that its co-riparians sign a hydrological ....

  • Saint Vincent and Grenadines representative: Nile River highly important as transboundary water source

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:22:17 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:150 - ID:9052164

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - Inga Rhonda King, the representative of Saint Vincent and Grenadines to the UN Security Council said the Nile River is of great importance as a transboundary water source for Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and all countries in its ....

  • Egypt facing 'existential threat' due to Ethiopia's GERD on Nile: FM tells UNSC 7 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:08:16 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:149 - ID:9052133

    Ethiopia has sought to justify these unreasonable positions by invoking some mythical injustice that had been wrought upon it by so-called colonial treaties or by an unfair status quo, the foreign minister said. "Ethiopia was never a colony, and ....

  • US representative: Horn of Africa at an inflection point

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:07:18 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:148 - ID:9052134

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - US representative to the United Nations Security Council Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the Horn of Africa is at an inflection point. Addressing a UN Security Council session on the Ethiopian dam on Thursday, ....

  • Egypt facing 'existential threat' due to Ethiopia's GERD on Nile: FM tells UNSC 6 New York

    Date: 2021-07-08 23:02:53 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:145 - ID:9052112

    Realizing this objective of concluding a fair and balanced agreement on the GERD is not unsurmountable nor is it beyond reach, the foreign minister said. “Indeed, the continued failure of negotiations is not due to a lack of scientific solutions ....

  • DRC envoy underscores importance of UNSC, AU in settling GERD dispute

    Date: 2021-07-08 22:58:12 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:144 - ID:9052116

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) envoy to the UN underlined the importance of the role of the UN Security Council and the African Union in settling the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as part ....

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