Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi asserted the importance of reaching a legal, binding agreement on filling and operating of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
His remarks came during a press conference he held with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen after the end of their joint session of talks at El Ittihadiya Palace on Monday.
The Egyptian state is doing its utmost to benefit from every drop of water, he said, citing water treatment and recycling projects and seawater desalination plants the country is building on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, Sisi said.
Egypt is exerting every effort possible to find a proper solution for the GERD problem via negotiations, he said, reiterating readiness for cooperating with the Ethiopian side to reach a settlement that meets Ethiopia’s development needs and does not compromise Egypt’s water security and harm its national interests and its right to a fair share of the River Nile.
