egypt fm to visit ethiopia over nile dam
Last Updated : GMT 05:17:37
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice
Last Updated : GMT 05:17:37
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

Egypt FM to visit Ethiopia over Nile dam

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice Egypt FM to visit Ethiopia over Nile dam

Minister Sameh Shoukry
CAIRO - Emiratesvoice

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Addis Ababa next week for talks with his Ethiopian counterpart, a foreign ministry spokesman said, in a bid to end a standoff over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the Nile river.

The dispute, which also involves Sudan, centers on control of a share of the waters of the Nile that stretches 6,695 km (4,184 miles) from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean and is the economic lifeblood of all three countries.

Cairo says the dam would threaten water supplies that have fed Egypt's agriculture and economy for thousands of years.

Ethiopia says the Grand Renaissance Dam, which it hopes will help make it Africa's largest power exporter, will have no major effect on Egypt. It accuses Cairo of flexing its political muscle to deter financiers from backing other Ethiopian power projects.

Delegations from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia met in Cairo in November to approve a study by a French firm commissioned to assess the dam's environmental and economic impact.

But negotiations stalled when they failed to agree on the initial report with each blaming others for blocking progress.

Sudan's Irrigation Minister Moataz Moussa said Egypt was unwilling to accept amendments to the report put forward by Khartoum and Addis Ababa.

Sudan and Ethiopia had expressed concern over several points, especially the proposed baseline from which the study would measure the dam's impacts, Moussa said in November.

Another source of disagreement is whether Ethiopia plans to complete construction before negotiations over water flows have finished.

"It's clear they don't want to reach conclusions quickly. We believe they probably want to start filling the dam and complete construction while there are still some ongoing discussions," said Mahmoud Abou Zeid, Arab Water Council Chair and former Egyptian irrigation minister.

He said this would violate an agreement signed by all three countries in Khartoum in 2015 meant to ensure diplomatic cooperation and stem fears of a resource conflict.

Cairo fears the 6,000-megawatt dam, being built by Italy's largest construction firm, Salini Impregilo SpA, and due for completion next year, will reduce the flow it depends on for drinking water and irrigation.

Egyptian officials say safeguarding the country's quota of Nile water is a matter of national security.

"No one can touch Egypt's water ... (which) means life or death for a population," President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said last month.

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

egypt fm to visit ethiopia over nile dam egypt fm to visit ethiopia over nile dam

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

egypt fm to visit ethiopia over nile dam egypt fm to visit ethiopia over nile dam

 



GMT 06:15 2018 Tuesday ,23 January

Volkswagen clinches record sales

GMT 05:06 2024 Tuesday ,06 February

New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way

GMT 05:32 2016 Sunday ,08 May

English Premier League results

GMT 03:53 2013 Wednesday ,30 January

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee

GMT 17:44 2017 Thursday ,02 March

War weapons discovered in southern Algeria

GMT 03:37 2015 Tuesday ,21 July

UAE to host Conference on electric vehicles

GMT 14:43 2012 Wednesday ,22 February

US reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer dead

GMT 17:05 2017 Tuesday ,14 February

Rights group: Pakistan forcing Afghan refugees home

GMT 13:10 2012 Wednesday ,08 February

Syria disrupts news broadcasts from Al Jazeera

GMT 17:50 2016 Tuesday ,01 March

Somali troops recapture key village from militants

GMT 12:06 2012 Thursday ,19 April

Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz

GMT 18:26 2014 Tuesday ,27 May

Samsung to introduce standalone smart watch

GMT 15:06 2016 Wednesday ,12 October

Driverless cars hit UK streets in landmark trial

GMT 13:58 2013 Saturday ,13 July

Versus Versace teams up with K-Way

GMT 09:53 2017 Tuesday ,16 May

Edouard Philippe becomes France's PM
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice
 
 Emirates Voice Facebook,emirates voice facebook  Emirates Voice Twitter,emirates voice twitter Emirates Voice Rss,emirates voice rss  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

emiratesvoieen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen
emiratesvoice emiratesvoice emiratesvoice
emiratesvoice
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice