From Africa to the UN Security Council, passing through the United States, it seems that the file of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has finally reached the Arab table, as Egypt and Sudan are looking for brotherly support in the crisis that threatens their water security, and may even affect their future and national security.

The Council of the League of Arab States - at the level of foreign ministers - will hold an "extraordinary" meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha - tomorrow, Tuesday - to discuss developments in the crisis issue, as Qatar chairs the current session of the League Council at the level of foreign ministers.

The extraordinary meeting of the Council will be held at the request of Egypt and Sudan and on the sidelines of the consultative meeting of Arab foreign ministers, according to statements by Ambassador Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher - the day before yesterday, Saturday - Zaki revealed that Egypt and Sudan did not present the Arab League with any talk of military action, and therefore the League did not discuss any matter related to that, explaining that decisions such as military action represent higher choices for decision-makers in the two countries.

This Egyptian-Sudanese move to discuss the crisis in Doha;

It comes in light of the continued faltering of negotiations with Ethiopia and the failure of regional and international mediation, and amid Egyptian activists' demands for military intervention.

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Can the dam crisis push towards supporting Arab solidarity and joint action?

Solidarity not agglomeration

In answering these questions, Ambassador Abdullah Al-Ashal - the former assistant foreign minister of Egypt - stressed that what we are dealing with is a kind of Arab solidarity and not a bloc against anyone, adding that holding the meeting in Doha gives it importance towards expanding the area of ​​solidarity.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Al-Ashal indicated that Doha has long experiences in issues of resolving regional and international conflicts, and perhaps Egypt saw that its role would be positive if not in resolving the crisis, then at the very least by showing the extent of Arab support for it.

With regard to Cairo's exclusion of military action, Al-Ashal saw that there is a new American trend in the direction of avoiding any military action against the Renaissance Dam, and giving priority to negotiations through mediators to break the deadlock in the negotiation process.

Support, not joint work

According to the former Sudanese parliamentarian Ismail Al-Haj Musa, the Arab League has become concerned with the issue of the Renaissance Dam;

Because it is a dispute between Ethiopia and two Arab countries.

And regarding the expected solutions that the meeting may come up with, Moussa expressed his belief that the meeting will think about peaceful solutions and then plan what he should work on in this conflict if the peaceful solution fails, in a manner that guarantees the rights and interests of the two countries, according to his talk to Al Jazeera Net.

And if the meeting could be a step on the road to paving the way and mobilizing support in the event of a military flare-up, Moussa believes that no Arab country would object to a military approach if Ethiopia stood in the face of a peaceful solution and insisted on filling the dam without any regard for the rights and interests of Sudan and Egypt.

for his part;

The former brigadier general of the Egyptian army, Adel Al-Sharif, ruled out the possibility of taking any military action against the Renaissance Dam, whatever the end of the negotiations, saying that "a summary of what I think is that no military action exceeds the state of threat and calms and calms national ambitions."

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Al-Sharif - who is currently an opposition politician abroad - added that the Ethiopia dam is not for distraction, but rather aimed at sabotaging Egypt, as was the sabotage of Syria and Iraq, so that these Arab powers will remain paralyzed for at least 20 years to come.

The fate of the military solution

Washington says that there is no military solution to the Renaissance Dam crisis, as the US State Department's regional spokeswoman, Geraldine Griffiths, said that the US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa is conducting consultations with the aim of reaching an appropriate solution agreed upon by the three parties in the negotiations.

Griffiths made it clear - during statements to an Egyptian satellite channel at the end of last May - that the US administration realizes that there are real concerns on the part of the three parties, and therefore America devotes its diplomatic efforts to reach a solution with the approval of the three countries.

However, the head of the Egyptian Generation Party, Naji Al-Shehaby, confirmed that the military option against the Renaissance Dam is still on the table, and he said that Egypt did not rule out the military option because unilaterally the decision to fill the dam poses an imminent danger to it and Sudan. Throughout its history, Egypt has not agreed to build a dam that holds the Nile water .

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Shihabi considered that Egypt tolerated Ethiopia in good faith, and understood its need to build the dam in order to promote development in the country by producing electricity, and not for the sake of monopolizing water and selling it contrary to the advertiser, so Egypt's survival on the geographical map may become questionable.

He pointed out that holding the Arab Ministerial Conference in Doha is the best declaration of full Arab solidarity with Egypt and Sudan on the issue of the Renaissance Dam, noting that the Arabs have many pressure cards, whether investment or diplomatic.

international movements

Prior to the meeting in Doha, Egypt informed the UN Security Council of its objection to Ethiopia’s announcement of its intention to proceed with filling the Renaissance Dam during the next flood season, and affirmed its total rejection of the Ethiopian approach, which it considered to be based on imposing a fait accompli on the two downstream countries.

This came in a letter addressed by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry last Friday evening to the President of the Security Council to explain the developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam file.

The intensification of diplomatic action comes at a time when it appears that Egypt has lowered either the range of its military threats or even the ceiling of its political demands, according to what Mada Masr (independent) website reported;

The website quoted an Egyptian government source as saying that Cairo and Khartoum clearly agreed, during the meeting that brought together the foreign and irrigation ministers of the two countries - last week - that work is continuing within the framework of continuing pressure on Ethiopia and avoiding escalation or the threat of any military action.

According to the source - whose name the site did not reveal - "it does not seem realistic to assume the possibility of reaching a binding legal agreement before the second filling, and the move now aims to guarantee rights in one way or another, without removing the requirement for a binding legal agreement from the negotiating table in principle." .