Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly delivered a speech on Thursday during the United Nation’s General Assembly’s high-level meeting on water, where he underscored the criticality of the decade-long dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Egypt’s concern with the developments of the dispute. Madbouly emphasized that the dispute is not merely an environmental matter, nor a legal issue concerning the governing of waters, but that “it is related to the survival of the Egyptian people for generations to come.” He went on to add that Egypt is concerned about the recent developments regarding Ethiopia’s unilateral actions concerning the GERD, as a full decade has been spent in painstaking negotiations with Ethiopia in order to reach a fair agreement that achieves Ethiopia’s development objectives, while at the same time limits the damage that could happen to other countries in the region such as Egypt and Sudan. Madbouly also iterated during his speech that he feels regret that these negotiations did not reach a conclusive agreement, and that the past years saw Ethiopia taking unilateral measures without taking into account the rights and interests of other countries, which is evidenced…
Egypt ‘Concerned’ About GERD Nile Crisis, Urges International Action
March 18, 2021
