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  1. “Finally, the Sudan reaffirms its sincere commitment to participating in good faith in all efforts to reach a binding agreement that fulfils the interests of the three parties.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  2. “To conclude, having informed the Council of this issue with all its sovereign, legal, security and humanitarian implications, and the fact that it poses a serious threat to international peace and security and a direct challenge to the Council’s mandate under the Charter of the United Nations, we have given the Council an opportunity to shoulder its responsibilities and take diplomatic and preventive measures to bring the parties back to negotiations and promote the African action upon which all parties had agreed, while conferring a greater role on international facilitators in the context of strengthening partnership between the United Nations and the African Union.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  3. “Members of the Council are called on to promote a process that continues to be hindered by obstacles. They can help the process easily and in a cost-effective way by alleviating the suffering of the Sudanese people by ensuring that the filling and operating of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam happen pursuant to a comprehensive and legally binding agreement. No filling should take place without an agreement, which would have bad and harmful consequences for the Sudan. However, silence from the Council would send a wrong message that a unilateral filling that harms the interests of the Sudan and the security of its people is acceptable. That might have serious consequences.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  4. “We hope that the Council will assume its responsibilities in maintaining regional peace and security in a preventative way by strengthening the negotiations under the auspices of the African Union and by calling on the parties concerned to resume negotiations under the auspices of the African Union, while allowing international mediators and observers to assume their role so as to facilitate the negotiations and reach an agreement in accordance with a set time frame and to call on Ethiopia to abstain from any unilateral measure without prior agreement, which could pose a threat to millions of inhabitants behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Before I conclude, I should like to say unequivocally that this issue is before the Council today. It is a just and urgent cause.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  5. “Moreover, the Sudan maintained its positive involvement by participating in the last round called for by the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and current Chairperson of the African Union. In that regard, the Sudan submitted a proposal to bolster the African negotiation mechanism by granting it a mediation role under African Union leadership, with the participation of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and South Africa, the latter three having been observers to preceding negotiations. However for the same reasons concerning Ethiopia’s intransigence and its rejection of all proposals put forward, that round was also unsuccessful.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  6. “We also wish to underline the initiative of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok in June 2020, which was aimed at continuing negotiations on the few remaining controversial issues following the end of the Washington, D.C., round in early 2020. The Sudan responded to the initiative of His Excellency the President of South Africa and former Chairperson of the African Union at its 2020 session to find an African solution to the dispute, as per the slogan “African solutions for African problems”. The Sudan participated effectively in all the negotiating rounds, which lasted for more than six months. However, the failure to improve the negotiating mechanism by conferring a greater role on experts resulted once again in a failure to reach an agreement.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  7. “Our relation with Ethiopia, which is our neighbour for better or worse, is characterized by a special relationship of cooperation, solidarity and concern to safeguard our common interests by strengthening relations between our two brotherly peoples, which means that together we need to go forward towards satisfying ends that maintain this relationship while Ethiopia puts a stop to further harm to the Sudan. Based upon our faith in regional cooperation, the Sudan has participated, effectively and in good faith, in all the rounds of tripartite negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam since they began in 2011. I wish to underscore here the colossal efforts made by the Sudan to persuade its two neighbours, Egypt and Ethiopia, to sign the Agreement on Declaration of Principles in Khartoum in March 2015.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  8. “The Sudan has carried out deep economic reforms based upon its faith in cooperation with the rest of the world. Indeed, at the Paris Conference, France celebrated the return of the Sudan to the international community and introduced it to the world delightfully by highlighting the opening of the Sudan to the world for constructive cooperation and smart partnerships in all areas, where agricultural investment would be preponderant. Therefore, Ethiopia’s attempt to disrupt the Sudan’s agricultural capabilities by imposing its hegemony in a unilateral manner with regard to the filling and operating of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is extremely dangerous and threatens our promising emerging agricultural renaissance and the Sudan’s widespread strategic agricultural projects.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  9. “The Sudanese revolution succeeded in breaking us from the yoke of totalitarian rule, under which Sudanese had lived in terror. That rule targeted the communities of Darfur, the two regions and the eastern part of the Sudan. None of the Sudanese provinces were spared its criminal acts. The world celebrated the great revolution, undertaken by a civil-military partnership that represents the unique Sudanese model presented to the world. It managed to achieve peace by signing the Juba Peace Agreement. The Sudan is determined to pursue its efforts towards achieving peace. The Prime Minister of the Sudan, Mr. Abdullah Hamdok, is currently chairing the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, where we are working to realize regional stability in East Africa and neighbouring countries in West Africa.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  10. “With regard to protecting the strategic security of the Sudan, as we underscored earlier, 70 per cent of the Sudan’s existing irrigated agricultural projects depend on the country’s dams in the Blue Nile basin. It is therefore vital for us to be kept up to date on the filling and operating of the Renaissance Dam in order for us to operate the Roseires Dam, so that the Sudan can plan now and in the future for its agricultural projects. As everyone is aware, the Sudan is currently open to the world following the success of its great revolution, made possible by the ultimate sacrifice of Sudanese youth and the courageous and tenacious leadership of the women and men of the Sudan, which dazzled the world. The Sudan has been removed from the list of State sponsors of terrorism.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  11. “Andersen, is located 100 kilometres from the Renaissance Dam and is less than one-tenth of its size in terms of water capacity. Along with other dams, it irrigates 70 per cent of the Sudan’s agricultural projects and generates almost 40 per cent of the electricity in the Sudan. Therefore, without the regular and systematic provision of information on how the Renaissance Dam is to be filled and operated, the safety and the security of the Roseires Dam will be seriously jeopardized. Its ability to generate electricity and provide water for significant strategic projects, which is part of the Gezira project, as well as other projects on which the Sudan depends for its food security and agricultural investment, would be doomed to failure.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  12. “Finally, the Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia sent a letter to us on 5 July confirming Ethiopia’s determination to fill the dam for the second year in a row, although we notified them of the considerable damage that had occurred and would occur to the Sudan as a result of this unilateral filling. Ethiopia has clearly demonstrated through its actions how it will behave towards Sudanese citizens in the absence of a legally binding agreement, in disregard of the rights of neighbourly countries, and use its capability to unilaterally operate the dams that stand on its territories in order to threaten the security and safety of the citizens of the Sudan. Concerning the protection of Sudanese dams, the Roseires Sand Dam, as pointed out by Ms.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  13. “In early June, Ethiopia once again unilaterally notified the Ministry of Irrigation of the Sudan that it would open the dam to allow the flow of nearly 2.5 billion cubic metres of water over a period of two weeks only. Consequently, the Ministry used the media to notify residents on the banks of the Setit River of the need to evacuate their homes within a mere three days. One can only imagine those people’s panic and terror as a result of that decision. Furthermore, last July Ethiopia filled the Renaissance Dam, for 2020, with 5 billion cubic metres of water without prior notification, which led to a sudden drop in the water level of the Blue Nile and the stoppage of many water stations for more than three days in the capital Khartoum, not to mention the considerable economic and political consequences, which the entire world witnessed.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  14. “They rely mainly on river agriculture, but the Renaissance Dam could change their way of life and decrease the area of cultivatable floodplains by 50 per cent. It is a price that we are willing to pay as long as those communities are able to benefit from a regular flow of the Nile while enjoying protection from the devastating effects of flooding. We cannot accept, however, that the filling and operating methods for the dam, adopted unilaterally, should be used to terrorize those citizens, undermine their dignity and violate their human rights, which Ethiopia did a few months ago by invoking its self- declared right to decide unilaterally on how to operate its dams. Since last November, Ethiopia has unilaterally closed the Tekezé dam on the Setit River, which originates in Ethiopia. That led to drought for a large area of land downstream.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  15. “The Sudan underscores the importance of a binding legal agreement on filling and operating the dam for the following reasons: first, safeguarding the security of the populations of the Sudan and Egypt; secondly, safeguarding Sudanese dams; and, thirdly, safeguarding the Sudan’s strategic security. A huge dam such as the Renaissance Dam — whose reservoir capacity is 74 billion cubic metres and which is located a few kilometres from the Sudanese borders and without coordinated safety measures with the communities living downstream — poses a direct threat to those communities and their security. With regard to safeguarding the security of the population, millions of Sudanese have lived for thousands of years on the banks of the Nile and its tributaries.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  16. “The Renaissance Dam — this huge African project — could serve as an ideal model for constructive cooperation for more than 250 million African citizens if it is used effectively and on the basis of cooperation and complementarity. The Sudan has vast expanses of fertile and arable land that could provide the three countries, the region and the entire world with sustainable food security, electricity from Ethiopia and transformative processing capabilities from Egypt. The three countries could also ensure the provision of qualified labour. The dam would offer an enlightening example of regional cooperation in that way.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  17. “Those benefits will materialize if the Grand Dam is filled and operated in such a way that the Sudan is aware of how it is filled and operated, one of the applicable principles of well- established norms and laws in cross-border rivers all over the world. We in Africa have vivid and successful measures that have helped stabilize States sharing transboundary rivers, such as the example of the significant experience of four countries of West Africa that have continued to consistently and jointly manage the Senegal River since 1972. Another eight African countries have jointly operated the Niger River under a legally binding agreement since 1980. However, without an agreement on filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the loss of its benefits could imperil half of the Sudan’s population and all the population of Egypt.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  18. “We have supported the Renaissance Dam from the outset and are well aware that its benefits will not be limited to neighbouring Ethiopia alone, provided that it is filled and operated under a legal agreement among the three countries in accordance with international law and the principles of equitable and reasonable exploitation of transiting water resources and without causing significant harm to downstream States, preserving the foundations of human rights and promoting the customs of good- neighbourliness between States. We are aware of the benefits of the Renaissance Dam for the Sudan in terms of flood prevention and regular flow throughout the year.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  19. “The Sudan expresses its appreciation for the role and efforts of the African Union since the beginning of its involvement in the process of negotiating with the three countries on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. We highlight the leadership of the process by the African Union and continue to cooperate with it in that context, with the aim of finding a just and equitable solution that is accepted by all parties. As we address the Security Council today, looking forward to its help and positive role in resolving this thorny conflict, we confirm at the outset that the Sudan recognized, and continues to recognize, the rights of neighbour Ethiopia in the current and future exploitation of the Nile waters.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  20. “Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, and Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, for their valuable briefings. I also thank President Tshilombo Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the statement delivered on his behalf. I appreciate all the other statements delivered by the members of the Council, to which I listened along with their valuable and useful proposals on the management of international rivers. I also salute my brothers Mr. Sameh Shoukry, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt, and Mr. Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia. I also salute my colleague who accompanies me, Professor Yasir Abbas, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources of the Republic of the Sudan.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source

  21. “Mrs. Al Mahadi (Sudan) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, at the beginning of this statement, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July, and to wish you all the best. I also congratulate the Permanent Representative of Estonia on its success in presiding over the Council last month. I would like as well to express my thanks and appreciation to the members of the Council in general, and France in particular, for their generous response in organizing this meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is an extremely important issue for my country and highlights the interest of the United Nations in partnering with the African Union and working to promote international peace and security in Africa and the world. I thank Mr.”

    2021-07-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8816 (2021) · source