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The Ethiopian foreign minister has summoned the United States ambassador to the country to obtain clarification on the statements of President Donald Trump on the Great Dam of the Ethiopian Renaissance, in which he warned that the lack of agreement could lead to military action.
“Incitement to war between Ethiopia and Egypt by an incumbent US president does not reflect the long-term partnership and strategic alliance between Ethiopia and the United States, nor is it acceptable under international law governing relations between countries.” Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Guido Andargachio said, according to a statement.
The Ethiopian minister stressed that his country “will not stop and will continue to build its great projects.”
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Renaissance dam “is a gigantic project that will transform people from poverty to wealth … and that work on it will not stop.”
Our correspondent said that the reactions in Ethiopia were all critical of what the US president said, and they were unanimous that Ethiopia has the right to benefit from its various resources and that Trump’s statements do not concern the country at all.
On Friday, Trump called on Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok to reach an amicable solution to the dispute over the Renaissance dam between Sudan and Egypt on the one hand and Ethiopia on the other, sending an unprecedented warning to Addis Ababa.
Trump said he also told Egypt the same thing, adding that “the situation is dangerous” and that Cairo could end up “blowing up that dam.”
Earlier, the Ethiopian Prime Minister responded to the US President’s speech by saying: “The Renaissance Dam is the Ethiopian Dam, and the Ethiopians will inevitably complete this work, and there is no force that can prevent us from achieving our goals that we have planned, and no one has colonized us before, and they won’t rule us. One for the future. “
For his part, the High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security of the European Union, Josep Borrell, said in a statement that more than 250,000 people residing in the Blue Nile Basin can benefit from a possible agreement based on a consensus on the filling from the Renaissance Dam.
Borrell said: “Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia can now reach an agreement to fill the dam, and now is the time to act, not to escalate tensions.”
The Commissioner expressed full European support for the efforts of the Republic of South Africa, which currently chairs the African Union, to push the parties towards a negotiated solution, adding that the European Union hopes to resume the Renaissance Dam talks as soon as possible and complete them successfully.
Egypt and Sudan are striving to reach a legally binding agreement that guarantees adequate water flows and a legal mechanism to resolve disputes before the dam is operational. However, in August, Ethiopia celebrated the first phase of filling the dam and insists on completing it without an agreement.
Egypt adheres to its historic rights to the waters of the Nile River and to international decisions and laws in this regard, rejecting any unilateral action by which Addis Ababa proceeds and demanding that Ethiopia adhere to the principles of international law.
