The echoes of the UN Security Council’s stance towards the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis are still circulating among the Egyptians who have found themselves forced to return to the tripartite negotiating table under the auspices of the African Union, which has not yielded tangible results over the past years.
The crisis of the Renaissance Dam is in place after the tripartite negotiations between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand and Ethiopia on the other failed, and the negotiations sponsored by the African Union failed, which prompted Egypt and Sudan to resort to the UN Security Council, but many major countries contented themselves with urging all parties to return to negotiations. Sponsored by the African Union.
Egyptian officials are trying to downplay the impact of the shock on the Egyptians by emphasizing that the Egyptian negotiator did not expect much from the Security Council, and that Cairo has other paths to address the crisis and preserve its rights to the waters of the Nile River, amid popular demands for military intervention.
And last Sunday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that the situation in the Security Council is complicated by accommodations and political considerations, explaining that he will express to the members of the Security Council his dissatisfaction with the council's ignoring the condemnation of the second mobilization of the Ethiopian dam.
On what the Russian delegate meant about Moscow’s rejection of the threat letter between the parties to the crisis, Shoukry tried to mitigate the Russian delegate’s speech by saying, “I interpret it as directing the conversation to Ethiopia, because it often issues a threat without agreement or protects it against a hypothetical danger, sometimes there are phrases It is taken in a vague manner, asking who issues it.”
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For his part, Egypt's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mohamed Idris, said that the Security Council's path is one of the paths, not the path that is expected to solve this problem, but Egypt only went to present the issue to the world.
Idris added, in statements to the DMC satellite channel, the day before yesterday, Tuesday, that Egypt went to the Security Council during its history in 3 issues, none of which were resolved by the Council.
Idris explained that Egypt knows very well the council's unwillingness to engage in such issues, and that it will not resolve the issue of the dam, otherwise it would have gone to it 10 years ago, which is the age of negotiations.
Emphasizing the position of the major countries on the Renaissance Dam crisis, which the Egyptians do not like, the British ambassador in Cairo, Jeffrey Adams, said that the position of the United Kingdom is to resume negotiations under the supervision of the African Union and to reach a peaceful and positive solution for all parties as soon as possible.
During a meeting on MBC Egypt, to explain Britain's position and vision on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis, Ambassador Adams said, "We are a permanent member of the Security Council, so we participated in the last meeting, and we clearly heard Egypt's position on Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry."
He stressed that Britain has good relations with all parties involved in the Renaissance Dam issue, but it does not want to enter into the details of the negotiations, but rather helps encourage all concerned parties to return to the negotiating table.
The complexities of the international situation seem to have prompted the Egyptian politician, Mustafa al-Fiqi, to propose a controversial suggestion that Egypt try to persuade Israel to help it solve the Renaissance Dam crisis, given its great influence on all parties.
The former diplomat - who was secretary to former President Hosni Mubarak and currently manages the Library of Alexandria - stressed that Israel's conviction of the need to support Egypt in the issue of the Renaissance Dam is able to change the American position on the crisis, and is able to change the Russian position as well.