The GERD (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) is a Development Project Not a Peace & Security Issue! Involving UN Security Council is Inappropriate!
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GERD is a Hydroelectric Dam, Not a Nuclear Weapon. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @NDeRiviere @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @RussiaUN Click To Tweet
It is sad for the United Nations Security Council to consider the GERD issue as topic of discussion knowing that it is a project aimed at alleviating poverty of the Ethiopian People #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN Click To Tweet
The GERD is an electric generating project not a weapon of mass distraction to be discussed ate the United Nations Security council#GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork Click To Tweet
Ethiopia is the founding member of the United Nations. The United Nations should not betray Ethiopia just like its predecessor the League of Nations that tried to slaughter Ethiopia to the Fascist Italy. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo Click To Tweet
In a world that is flooded with endless security threat it is immoral to present the Ethiopian grand hydroelectric project GERD as a security issue. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @RussiaUN Click To Tweet
The UN should have financed the GERD in its poverty alleviation effort let alone to be an obstacle for the completion of the project financed by the poor Ethiopians to fight against the number one enemy, poverty #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam Click To Tweet
Ethiopia however poor it may be will not bow to neo-colonialists who wanted to discourage its bold move to free itself from the yoke of poverty. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon Click To Tweet
The Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam is a project built on our own land, on our own river, with our own money respecting all international laws. Nothing will stop us from realizing our dream. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu Click To Tweet
More than 65% of Ethiopians live in darkness without electricity whereas Egypt that contributes nothing to the Nile River enjoys 100% of electric power. How unfair is the UNSC to accept Egypt’s demand to discuss GERD on UNSC. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity Click To Tweet
Ethiopia never aspires to harm the downstream countries by the GERD. @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @RussiaUN @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS Click To Tweet
The amount of water that Ethiopia holds in the GERD is less than the water that Egypt wastes by evaporation from the Aswan Dam built on the Nile river #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @MexOnu Click To Tweet
Egypt very well knows that the GERD would not harm on Egypt. This was openly expressed by its foreign minister. But Egyptian president Al Si Si wants the GERD issue to divert the attention of the Egyptian opposition towards his unlawful rule of the country #GERDis4Development Click To Tweet
The Renaissance Dam is not an issue of threats to neither Egypt nor Sudan African regional threat is poverty #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @RussiaUN @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun… Click To Tweet
Let the world know that Ethiopia has the natural right to use the Nile River. It is our river and we have also right to use the Nile!! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu Click To Tweet
Wrong interpretation of GERD!! Wrong Disinformation of GERD to Egyptian and Sudanese peoples and UNSC!! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @RussiaUN @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere Click To Tweet
The GERD cannot be threat for Sudan and Egypt by any dimensions! It is rather a blessing to both countries #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork Click To Tweet
Egypt and Sudan. The Nile water is enough for all basin countries. So we Ethiopians cannot harm any country. Please be cool come to your senses!!!!!! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MexOnu @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN Click To Tweet
We have one unforgiving enemy. That is called poverty. Ethiopians grand Renaissance dam is the only way that we Ethiopian people have to depart from poverty and backwardness. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @antonioguterres @RussiaUN @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere Click To Tweet
What madness! We have already started the second filling of GERD. Let alone the UNSC Even we Ethiopians can’t stop it!! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS @EstoniaUN @UN Click To Tweet
Don’t get confused!!! The GERD is not only a hydroelectric dam for we Ethiopians It is rather a symbol of unity and prosperity!!We would rather die than stopping this grand project. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo Click To Tweet
How laughable the United Nations Security council has become!!! How developmental issue (dam) is considered as a threat to peace and security? Shame on you! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres @USUN Click To Tweet
Now the second filling of the dam has started it is the duty of both Sudan and Egypt to protect the security. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS Click To Tweet
Dam is dam it's not a nuclear bomb .what a distorted outlook to present this as a security issue on the UNSC. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN Click To Tweet
How development can become threat to security/peace? what threatening the region is our attitude, selfishness #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @RussiaUN @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon Click To Tweet
Dear Egypt people and government, the water is more than enough to all of the Nile base counties. What is needed is only cooperation. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MarrietS @EstoniaUN @IndiaUNNewYork @MexOnu @NorwayUN @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam Click To Tweet
Dear Egypt and the Sudan don't waste your time! Just accept the truth and work for the mutual benefit. We said again and again that no earthly power can stop Ethiopia from filling the dam! #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @NorwayUN @USUN @UN @antonioguterres Click To Tweet
No one can stop Ethiopia filling the GERD with its rain water falling from Ethiopian sky. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri @PassySolomon @MarrietS @EstoniaUN Click To Tweet
We are obliged only to notify Egypt about the second filling of the dam and here we did it. We need no one’s approval on the project financed by the poor Ethiopians working on their land on their God given river the Nile. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity Click To Tweet
Why getting mad Egypt!!! We aren't asking you a permission to fill the dam we just notify you that we have begun the long awaited filling of the GERD #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MexOnu @TunisieDiplo @MOFAVietNam @Chinamission2un @NorwayUN @USUN @UN Click To Tweet
Al-sissi please don't jump here and there. We Ethiopians still believe in negotiations and we have no intention at all to harm anyone. #GERDis4Development #RespectEthiopianSovereignity @MOFAVietNam @NDeRiviere @irishmissionun @USUN @UKUN_NewYork @KenyaMissionUN @nazaninemoshiri Click To Tweet