CAIRO – 8 July 2021: The Arab Council for Human Rights urged the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to behave decisively on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue as the council is set to meet tonight. In a statement, the council said the second phase of filling the dam by the Ethiopian side is carried out unilaterally and represents a harm to the water rights of Egypt and Sudan in a way that threatens international security and peace. Chief of the council, Abdel Gawad Ahmed, affirmed that the UNSC is in charge of considering the GERD dispute in accordance with the Charter of the UN due to its connection to the international security and peace. It also harms the two countries’ water rights established through international agreements that may not be infringed, according to the Middle East News Agency. The council said and many Arab and international human rights organizations are calling on the UNSC to provide firm legal rather than political treatment to the GERD issue as peoples’ right in life and development is connected to their water right, Ahmed said.

Source: Egypt Today July 08, 2021 16:52 UTC