Irish UN Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason (L) chairs a UN Security Council meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 16 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Security Council encouraged Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile.
In a presidential statement, the council encouraged the three stakeholders to resume talks at the invitation of the chairperson of the African Union (AU) to finalize expeditiously the text of mutually acceptable and binding agreement on the filling and operation of the dam, “within a reasonable time frame.”
The Security Council called on the three countries to take forward the AU-led negotiation process in a constructive and cooperative manner.
The council also encouraged observers that have been invited to attend the AU-led negotiations and any other observers that the three countries may consensually decide to jointly invite, to continue supporting the negotiations with a view to facilitating the resolution of outstanding technical and legal issues.
It underscored that this statement does not set out any principles or precedent in any other transboundary water disputes. — NNN-XINHUA
