Egypt demands UN Security Council's intercession over Ethiopia's Nile dam

CAIRO, June 20 (Xinhua) - Egypt has mentioned late on Friday the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to intercede to determine the disagreement regarding the dubious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River. 

In an announcement, Egyptian outside service said Egypt has presented a solicitation to the UNSC over the GERD, approaching the UN body to mediate "to underline the significance for Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to proceed with arrangements with positive attitude." 

The service included it has requested that the committee push the three nations to cling to their commitments as per the standards of global law so as to arrive at a reasonable and adjusted answer for the issue of the GERD, the announcement said. 

Any one-sided measure may hurt the odds of agreeing over the dam, as per the announcement. 

It included that Egypt settled on this choice after the negative position Ethiopia has received during the decade-long arrangements. 

Egypt reaffirmed its astuteness to arrive at an understanding that meets the interests of the three nations, the service stated, taking note of that it has looked for the UNSC intercession to keep away from any strain and to keep up universal harmony and security. 

Since June 9, the three nations have been holding customary video gatherings to examine issues identified with the filling and activity of the GERD within the sight of three spectators from the United States, the European Union Commission and South Africa. 

In the course of recent years, tripartite chats on the principles of filling and working Ethiopia's fantastic hydropower dam have been unbeneficial, including those facilitated by Washington, in the midst of Egyptian worries that the GERD would influence Egypt's yearly portion of Nile water. 

Ethiopia has as of late said that it would before long beginning filling the repository, while Egypt has over and over cautioned against any one-sided activity without an earlier tripartite understanding. 

Ethiopia began building the GERD in 2011, while Egypt, a downstream Nile Basin nation that depends on the waterway for its freshwater, is worried that the dam may influence its 55.5-billion-cubic-meter yearly portion of the water assets of the stream.