UPDATED: Sudan says ‘deeply’ concerned about GERD filling without prior deal in letter to UN Security Council

UPDATED: Sudan says ‘deeply’ concerned about GERD filling without prior deal in letter to UN Security Council

UPDATED: Sudan says 'deeply' concerned about GERD filling without prior deal in letter to UN Security Council - Politics - Egypt









Sudan urges UNSC to prevent any unilateral action concerning GERD







Ahmed Morsy

, Thursday 25 Jun 2020







This satellite image taken Thursday, May 28, 2020, shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia (Photo:AP)













Sudan said in a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday that it is "deeply concerned“ about Ethiopia's decision to start filling its controversial dam on the Blue Nile without prior agreement with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.

Egypt's southern neighbour urged the international body to "discourage" all parties from any "unilateral action."

In its three-page letter, Khartoum said the unilateral filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will put the operation of the Sudanese Roseires dam, whose reservoir is located 15 km away from the Ethiopian dam, and the lives of millions of people living downstream at "a very high risk."

"Sudan is deeply concerned about Ethiopia's decision to start filling the GERD reservoir