Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to New York, Sunday, to participate in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GRED). The UNSC meeting comes in response to requests from Egypt and Sudan. “Shoukry will hold a series of intensive meetings with his …
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Menna Alaa al-Din – Ahram Online “The Arab League is keen on ensuring that Egypt and Sudan resorting to the UN Security Council over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue does not turn into an Arab- African dispute”, Arab League representative to the UN, Maged Abdel-Fattah, said on Friday. …
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Ahram Online Tunisia’s Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, and the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, discussed, on Tuesday, the possibility of adding the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to the July agenda of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The two officials were at the meeting …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, discussed the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue with counterparts from the US, France, the UK, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya at the international coalition against the Islamic State in Rome on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a Congolese …
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Egypt Independent Ethiopia has rejected, Friday, the proposals of Egypt and Sudan to refer the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute to the UN Security Council. It accused the two downstream countries of undermining the ongoing negotiations under the auspices of the African Union. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry confirmed, in …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, discussed several regional issues with Foreign and Security Advisor to the German Chancellor Jan Hecker in Berlin on Wednesday. Shoukry arrived in Berlin, Tuesday, to attend the 2nd Berlin Conference on Libya at an invitation from the German Foreign Minister and the United …
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Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Ati discussed with South Sudanese Foreign Minister Beatrice Khamisa Wani the latest developments concerning the decade-long dispute between Cairo, Khartoum, and Addis Ababa over the GERD in a meeting on Monday. “Egypt’s flexibility during the negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) …
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Amr Kandil – Ahram Online “The international community will not accept any threats to the stability of the Horn of Africa or to the relations between River Nile riparian countries”, said Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Sunday, as he tackled the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. Aboul-Gheit’s remarks …
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Mohamed Soliman – Ahram Online “Sudan sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling on it to oblige Ethiopia not to proceed with the second filling its Blue Nile dam, without reaching a legal binding deal with downstream countries”, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam al-Sadiq said on Saturday. …
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Menna Alaa al-Din – Ahram Online Ethiopia slammed the resolution taken by the Arab League, on Tuesday, backing Egypt and Sudan’s water security amid deadlock in negotiations over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a statement, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said it is “dismayed by the resolution of …
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