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  • China hopes three states resume dialogue on GERD - ambassador

    Date: 2021-07-09 01:53:42 GMT - USA - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:5 - ID:9052240

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - China's Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council Zhang Jun voiced hope that Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan would resume dialogue on the Ethiopian dam as soon as possible. "China fully understands the legitimate ....

  • UNSC chief stresses need to mobilize efforts to reach agreement on GERD

    Date: 2021-07-09 01:36:24 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:4 - ID:9052230

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - Nicolas de Riviere, the Permanent Representative of the French Republic to the United Nations and President of the Security Council, confirmed the continuation of mobilizing efforts to reach a binding agreement on the ....

  • China's delegate asserts need to take into account rights of downstream, upstream states

    Date: 2021-07-09 01:27:53 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:3 - ID:9052228

    NEW YORK, July 8 (MENA) - China's delegate to the UN Security Council stressed the need to take into account the national interests of upstream and downstream countries in the issue of water resources for transboundary rivers, considering it as a ....

  • Shoukry asks UNSC to shoulder its responsibility to reach binding deal on GERD 4 last New York

    Date: 2021-07-09 00:51:30 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:2 - ID:9052183

    Asked about the possibility of Russia’s help in international efforts to bring closer views on the GERD, the foreign minister said Egypt welcomes all efforts exerted at the international level. “Egypt interacts with all parties that have the ....

  • Shoukry asks UNSC to shoulder its responsibility to reach binding deal on GERD 2 New York

    Date: 2021-07-09 00:50:52 GMT - United Nations - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:1 - ID:9052180

    The Egyptian top diplomat said UNSC should assume its responsibilities to maintain peace and security and embrace a draft resolution floated by Tunisia to back the negotiation track. Regarding the possibility of Egypt opting for a military ....

  • 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 ....

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