{"id":352831,"date":"2021-03-16T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=352831"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:48:26","slug":"ethiopia-rejects-call-by-sudan-and-egypt-for-involving-other-four-parties-in-gerd-s-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/352831","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia rejects call by Sudan and Egypt for involving other four parties in GERD &#8216;s negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has rejected a call by Sudan and Egypt for involving other four parties in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on Tuesday, Spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Dina Mufti said Sudan and Egypt did not officially propose to Ethiopia that they want four other parties to be involved as mediators in the GERD\u2019s talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthiopia will not accept such a proposal as mediators will have no role except of facilitating the negotiation. Only the three countries will determine the outcome of thetalks,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Sudan and Egypt have been pressing for the involvement of other parties after their leaders held talks on the GERD recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have great honor for the African Union. Ethiopia believes African problems should be resolved by Africans\u201d Dina said claiming the African Union is the right mediator. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFilling of the GERD\u2019s reservoir will continue but the negotiation can be held before or after the filling,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has rejected a call by Sudan and Egypt for involving other four parties in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations. In a press briefing on Tuesday, Spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Dina Mufti said Sudan and Egypt did not officially propose to Ethiopia that they want four other parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":352833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MoFA-2.png?fit=376%2C331&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1tMP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352834,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352831\/revisions\/352834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}