Egypt calls for the inclusion of cross-border rivers on the international agenda
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed the importance of uniting all international efforts to confront terrorism in a serious and resolute manner, to dry up its sources and protect all humanity from its imminent dangers, and called for the inclusion of cross-border rivers on the international agenda.
Shoukry said during his participation in a session entitled "Multilateralism and Regional Security in a Transforming Framework" within the work of the "Manama Dialogue" conference today, Saturday, that today's world is facing an escalation in the risks associated with cross-border terrorism with multiple faces and arms, which works to fragment societies and destroy concepts The national state, according to a statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its official Facebook page.
Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Foreign Minister’s speech touched on the most prominent current challenges, which have radically differed from the challenges of the past, including the challenge of climate change, which has become a tangible reality, and its consequences have become a threat to economic development, food security and a source of conflict over scarce resources. It may amount to a threat to international peace and security.
Shoukry also referred to the coronavirus crisis, which has placed unimaginable burdens on the global health situation for humanity.
Shoukry continued, saying that these challenges are succeeding, to which are added the issues of illegal immigration, cyber and digital security, artificial intelligence challenges, genetic modifications, space security and others.
Minister Shoukry stressed that there is international recognition of the urgent need to develop and modernize international and regional multilateral frameworks, and that there is a need to adopt new priorities and topics on the international agenda, in addition to existing priorities and files, that respond to emerging and non-traditional challenges, such as conflicts over limited natural resources, such as rivers. Cross-border, immigration and unemployment issues.
Shoukry called on the multilateral system to commit, and even respect, the comprehensiveness of work to provide and protect all human rights, within a comprehensive concept and through an approach based on objectivity and impartiality to ensure that all peoples of the world enjoy their rights guaranteed to them by international conventions, and not selectively deal with human rights issues or try to take them as a tool to achieve political goals.
At the conclusion of his speech, Minister Shoukry indicated that the success or failure of multilateral action in the face of the aforementioned challenges will have a direct impact on regional security in all regions of the world. However, the matter still depends on the availability of the political will of the members of the international community, individually and collectively, to uphold the values of justice. and cooperation.
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