Ahram Online The Arab League Council’s 156th ordinary ministerial session convened late on Thursday in Cairo, Egypt. The ministerial session discussed the latest developments in Libya, Palestine, Syria and Yemen. Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, reiterated Egypt’s commitment “to support all Arab countries to endure the current exceptional circumstances”. “The …
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Egypt Independent Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok said on Wednesday, “a solution to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will soon be reached within the framework of international law”. Hamdok praised an Algerian initiative to solve the dam crisis. Algeria had called for ‘a direct meeting between Egypt, Sudan and …
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Egypt Independent The US embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sent a letter, Wednesday, to Ethiopia stressing the need to resolve the crisis. The letter follows Ethiopia’s recent announcement on completing the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir. “US Secretary of State Antony Blinken …
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Dina Ezzat – Ahram Online The UN Security Council session held on Thursday, resulted in a call on Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to settle the dispute over the GERD under the auspices of the African Union “in good faith and away from any unilateral action”. “After a year of abortive …
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Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, discussed the latest developments on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with a number of European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers in Brussels on Monday. “Shoukry shared the results of the recent United Nations Security Council meeting, held last Thursday, on the …
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Ahram Online Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to Brussels, on Sunday, to deliver a message from President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to the European Council’s President, Charles Michel and discuss the Ethiopian dam issue. The European Council, which includes heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, defines …
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Ahram Online The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened in New York on Thursday to discuss the latest developments on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) at the request of Egypt and Sudan. The session followed the failure of talks between the two downstream countries and Ethiopia. Negotiations were focused …
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Ahmed Morsy – Ahram Online “The United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) vote on the draft resolution Tunisia submitted on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could be delayed until next week”, diplomatic sources in New York told Ahram Online on Wednesday. “Extending the vote for a week will give Egypt …
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Ahram Online “Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with UN officials and ambassadors of different countries to explain the Egyptian position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue”, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated on Monday. Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi is also in New York to discuss the …
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Egypt Independent “The Egyptian Stock Exchange fell after Ethiopia announced the start of the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)’s reservoir on Tuesday”, Reuters reported. The main Egyptian index fell in the first hour of trading Tuesday morning by about two percent. It comes amid weak trading, …
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