Ethiopian News, Current Affairs and Opinion Forum
DefendTheTruth
Senior Member
Posts: 12894
Joined: 08 Mar 2014, 16:32

The ongoing debate on GERD, where it started, where it reached now

Post by DefendTheTruth » 07 Mar 2020, 08:15

I started to follow the issues of the ongoing discussion (let me not call it a conflict for now) about GERD, like all other citizens of the country are doing right now, and came across the following discussion from before a year and half in the internet today.

I found it interesting at least from two important points of view.

- the discussion seems to me to be between third party participants who are not necessarily partisan to the two party of the GERD discussion (in this case Ethiopia and Egypt) and between people who have been following the subject matter more closely over time.

- the participants of this panel-discussion seem to be in agreement that Egypt is to blame for the missing agreement and a progress on the discussion between the parties of the disagreement.

They in fact singled out Egypt as the cause of a lack of progresses on the discussion and its adamant position on making a deal and instead try to call on the historical (customary) use right on the river, which the participants called untenable now.

In the American court of justice of the current Trump Administration the Ethiopians were singled out as the culprit of the disagreement between the parties and America assumed itself to be in a position to tell the Ethiopians that they have no right to use their own resources until they (the Americans) allow them to do so. The American mockery of justice, I may call this.



DefendTheTruth
Senior Member
Posts: 12894
Joined: 08 Mar 2014, 16:32

Re: The ongoing debate on GERD, where it started, where it reached now

Post by DefendTheTruth » 07 Mar 2020, 08:46

Information is a weapon, they say, and it's very important to gather all the available informations from all sides and be informed adequately before taking the next step.



If you keep refusing making a deal and remain intransigent on the ongoing discussions still you can run to America of the 21st century and be awarded a court-ruling for your behaviour. Trump-Administrations mockery of justice.

tlel
Member
Posts: 1559
Joined: 28 Dec 2019, 14:24

Re: The ongoing debate on GERD, where it started, where it reached now

Post by tlel » 07 Mar 2020, 15:06

DefendTheTruth wrote:
07 Mar 2020, 08:46
Information is a weapon, they say, and it's very important to gather all the available informations from all sides and be informed adequately before taking the next step.



If you keep refusing making a deal and remain intransigent on the ongoing discussions still you can run to America of the 21st century and be awarded a court-ruling for your behaviour. Trump-Administrations mockery of justice.
Abebe the bandaw should be jumping up and down when he hears about this.


Post Reply