Ethiopia obstructs efforts to reach legally binding agreement on GERD: Shoukry

Ethiopia obstructs efforts to reach legally binding agreement on GERD: Shoukry

Egypt - Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has said that Ethiopia obstructs efforts to reach a legally binding framework for the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

Shoukry’s remarks came during his speech in the annual conference of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs on Saturday.

The theme of the conference focused on the repercussions of the Russian / Ukrainian crisis on the Middle East and Egypt.

Ahmed Abu Zeid, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that during his speech, Minister Shoukry expressed his pride in the significant successes achieved by Egyptian diplomacy, pointing to the crises and challenges witnessed in 2022, the latest of which is the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

Shoukry reviewed the most important determinants of the Egyptian position on that crisis, and Egypt’s strenuous efforts to interact at the bilateral and multilateral levels to contain the negative economic repercussions resulting from the Ukrainian crisis on the Egyptian economy.

He touched upon the Egyptian point of view calling for defending the multilateral collective action system and warning against the consequences of international action outside it by seeking to establish new rules outside this system.

The minister stressed the need to review and develop the concept of international