1st LD: Egypt rejects blame by Ethiopia, Sudan for failure of dam talks
Xinhua,April 12, 2018 Adjust font size:
CAIRO, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Egypt expressed its rejection of being blamed by Ethiopia and Sudan over the failure of their recent tripartite talks regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under construction, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The Egyptian statement came in response to recent statements from the Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministries holding Egypt responsible for the failure of their talks in Khartoum earlier in April.
"Egypt took part in the nine-party meeting in Khartoum with a positive spirit and an earnest desire to reach an agreement that implements the instructions of the leaderships of the three states," Egyptian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in the statement.
The meeting is referred to as "nine-party" for comprising the ministers of foreign affairs, those of water resources and the heads of intelligence services of the three countries.
He explained that Egypt participated in Khartoum talks with the purpose of reaching solutions that would overcome the current stalemate of the technical talks regarding the GERD.
Abu Zeid revealed that Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry sent on Wednesday letters to his Ethiopian and Sudanese counterparts inviting them for another meeting in Cairo to continue their discussions. Enditem