Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Tuesday the US, British and French permanent representatives to the UN in New York to brief them on Egypt’s position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez said in a tweet.
Shoukry embarked on a several-day trip to New York for a series of extensive meetings with counterparts and permanent representatives to the UN, to reaffirm Egypt’s unwavering stance towards the GERD issue, which is summarized in the urgent need to reach a binding deal on the dam filling and operation processes, taking into account the water interests of all the parties involved.
