The spokesperson of Ministry of Egypt’s Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, criticized on Wednesday a statement issued by the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday regarding the recent Arab summit support for the position of Egypt and Sudan on the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Ambassador Abu Zeid called the statement ‘misleading’, full of inaccuracies and fallacies, and a desperate attempt to drive a wedge between the Arab and African countries by portraying Arab support for Egypt’s just and responsible position as an Arab-African dispute.
He also rejected the statement’s claims that Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan had already agreed on the volume of water to be stored and the filling period of the dam reservoir, and that Egypt and Sudan’s request for Arab support violated the principles agreement.
Furthermore, the Ethiopian statement falsely claims that the Arab member states of the African Union do not support the Arab decision issued at the last summit unanimously, he added.
The spokesperson emphasized Egypt’s history of supporting African liberation movements and its efforts to support economic and social development programmes on the continent.
He also called on Ethiopia to stop using the pretext of “colonial agreements” to evade its legal obligations and to reach a legally binding agreement that takes into account the existential concerns of downstream countries.
