On Thursday 08 July 2021, the United Nations Security Council convened in New York to discuss water crisis between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia as a result of disputes regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). the session, which comes at the request of Egypt and Sudan, follows the failure of dialogue between the two countries and Ethiopia. Below is the full speech of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday evening, where he called for the Council to intervene and to support Egypt’s efforts to reach an amicable solution with Ethiopia by voting fora draft resolution presented by Tunisia, currently the only Arab non-permanent member in the Council. —— Your Excellency Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations and President of the U.N. Security Council. Distinguished Representatives of the Member States of the United Nations Security Council. Dear Sister the Foreign Minister of the Sudan and Dear Brothers the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and of Ethiopia. At the outset, I would like to extend my congratulations to Ambassador de Rivière on assuming the presidency of…
Ethiopia ‘Condemned 150 Million Sudanese and Egyptians’: Egypt’s Foreign Minister at UNSC
July 9, 2021
