On Thursday, July 8, the UN pressured Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the great renaissance dam on the Nile, under the leadership of the African Union. Egypt would have liked the UN Security Council to address the issue, but the fifteen members unanimously invited them to reconsider concessions in order to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.
as reported from New York, Carrie Nooten
Directly for the UN Environment Program assured that an agreement on the Renaissance dam could be reached. In turn, the 15 members of the Security Council agreed, and even went so far as to offer logistical assistance in organizing the talks – a Russian proposal or exchange of experience – a Mexican proposal.
Egypt wanted the Security Council to take care of the matter
And everyone praised the monitoring of the African Union (AU), where the regional organization was best placed to monitor the situation according to them. However, Egypt has been worried and no longer believes in AU mediation, which according to her has been in a dead end for a year. She asked the council to consider a draft resolution proposed by Tunisia calling for a solution to the conflict within six months, the cessation of the Ethiopian dam and the inclusion of this document in the Security Council’s program.
Sudan has asked for help in finding a legally binding agreement. A silence would be interpreted as a green light given to Addis Ababa to continue filling the dam. In the case of Ethiopia, it simply indicated that since the conflict did not threaten international peace and security, it did not need to be discussed in the Security Council.
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