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04:01 pm
Thursday 31 December 2020
Cairo – (Masrawy).
Egypt renewed its condemnation of the statements by the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, during which he referred to Egyptian internal affairs and described them as a “flagrant transgression”.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, affirmed that these statements are “total and unacceptable” and represent a crude deviation from the obligations contained in the Constitutive Act of the African Union, which clearly establishes in its fourth article the obligation of the States members not to interfere in the internal affairs of another country. And it is seen as a departure from long-standing African values that foster brotherhood and respect for others.
Hafez also emphasized, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry published on its official Facebook page, that such an attack on the Egyptian state and fraud in the management of its internal affairs “represents nothing more than a continuation of the approach of employing the tone hostile and inflamed sentiments to cover up successive Ethiopian failures on many levels internally. And externally, while Egypt has always preferred to refrain from discussing in any way the internal situation and developments in Ethiopia. “
He added: “It would have been better if the Ethiopian spokesman had paid attention to the deteriorating conditions in his country, which is witnessing many conflicts and human tragedies that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds and the displacement of tens of thousands of innocent citizens, the latest of which is what is happening in the Tigray and Beni Shangol regions, in full view of all, as well as the ongoing tension and instability in the Oromia region, “according to the statement.
And he continued: “This is in addition to the current hostile practices of Ethiopia towards its regional surroundings, including the recent military actions and the escalation of tension in the border strip with Sudan.”
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ethiopian Chargé d’Affaires to Cairo, to clarify the statements attributed to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Dina Mufti, “who deals with the internal affairs of Egypt”, without clarifying the nature of those statements.
This came days before the alleged resumption of the Renaissance dam negotiations next Sunday, at the invitation of the African Union.
Negotiations were suspended in November following the withdrawal of Sudan, which objected to the “negotiating methodology”, but it was announced that negotiations would resume during Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok’s visit to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in December.
