Meeting with Ethiopian officials on
Monday sees President El-Sisi continue promises of 'dialogue' and cooperation
between the two countries
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros
Adhanom has invited Egypt's newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to
visit his country, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.
The
invitation came during a meeting on Monday at the presidential headquarters in
Cairo's Heliopolis district, where El-Sisi met with Adhanom in addition to
Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and Ethiopia's ambassador to Egypt,
Mahmoud Dardeer.
A spokesman
for the Egyptian presidency, Ihab Badawy, said that El-Sisi stressed the deep,
historical bonds between the two countries and insisted that the issue
concerning Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam "should be solved through
dialogue".
El-Sisi
said that Egypt understands Ethiopia's needs for development and thus Ethiopia
should understand Egypt's needs to its share of the Nile.
According
to Badawy, the Ethiopian foreign minister stressed that his country does not
intend to minimise Egypt's share of Nile water and that the dam's purpose is to
generate electricity.
Adhanom
also said that he is looking forward to having El-Sisi meet with Ethiopian
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at the African Union Summit scheduled to
take place in late June in Equatorial Guinea.
Meanwhile,
El-Sisi showed his intention to visit Ethiopia to stress the importance of
cooperation between the two countries.
SOURCE
Ahram
Online, Monday 9 Jun 2014
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