• Reaffirms Ethiopia’s stance on principle of fair, reasonable utilization of Nile
ADDIS ABABA– FDRE President Sahlework Zewde has called on the world to take urgent and series actions to address urgent global challenges.
Speaking at the 74th United Nations General Assembly President Sahlework stressed that threats to global peace and security are multiplying and worsening at this time.
Geopolitical tensions, climate changes, unnecessary trade tensions, expansion of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, violent extremism, poverty and income inequalities are the global challenges that require urgent global solutions, she noted.
Sahlework said that now is the critical time to solve these global challenges adding that multilateralism is the appropriate mechanism to solve all these global challenges timely and sustainably since these are threats for all world population.
Ethiopia is investing its efforts to minimize regional, continental and global threats by participating on UN peace keeping, mediating regional conflicts in the Horn, combating terrorism, planting four billion seedlings to protect global warming and taking series of political and economic reforms at home.
Ever since the political transition in April 2018, Ethiopia has made major political, legal and economic reforms to meet its people’s demand. To combat climate change Ethiopia has prepared a ten year reforestation program to avert the deforestation.
Ethiopia’s core agenda is withdrawing its people from poverty, the home of over 100 million populations where over 65 million of its people did not get access to energy; Ethiopia is building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on River Nile, Sahlework noted.
She stressed that Ethiopia believes on international principles of fair and reasonable natural resource utilization on River Nile and GERD is under construction with this international principle and Ethiopia’s strong belief without harming the downstream countries.
Sahlework noted that River Nile is source of coordination and brotherhood among and between the basin countries. She added that the destiny of the Nile Basin countries is only cooperation.
To strengthen mutual benefit and cooperation of all the Nile Basin countries, Ethiopia gives due attention to multilateralism and stated that the tripartite meeting between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt is scheduled to take place at the end of September 2019.
The Ethiopian Herald Sept 28/2019
BY DARGIE KAHSAY
