Egypt rallies int’l support to resolve GERD gridlock

Shoukry rallying int’l support to resolve GERD gridlock: Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry brought up the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations in several meetings with other foreign ministers during the UN General Assembly in New York last week after President Abdel Fattah El Sisi called on the international community to help Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia reach a resolution. Shoukry expressed Egypt’s “dissatisfaction with the prolonged talks” to the Russian, Dutch, Finnish, South Sudanese, Senegalese, and Burundian foreign ministers in separate meetings.