Informal comments to the media by Seleshi Bekele, Minister of Water, Irrigation, and Energy of Ethiopia on the Nile Dam following the Security Council, 8816th meeting on Peace and security in Africa.
you know that the gibe iii dam which was supposed to be hydroelectric power dam is draining Kenya’s Lake Turkana. Lake Turkana is in grave danger according to IUCN. you know that right?!
Great job Ethiopia!!💪Africans problem solved only by Africans!! Egypt and Sudan stop your greed and disrespecting AU!!! we Eritreans stand with Ethiopia 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷 God bless Eritrea & Ethiopia🙏❤
Yes We Ethiopian so proud of you Dr Sileshi African Solution for African problem🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 Truth will prevail🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 Ethiopia has the truth🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 Ethiopia has the right to use her own resources🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Respect to Dr seleshi, u have represented our country. We are proud of GERD. We will finish and all the noise will drop. May Ethiopia live forever🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Everyone should respect their elders to avoid any kind of punishments and regrets! That's our natural resource before ethiopia and other countries existence! ;)
Much respect to you Dr. Seleshi ! Your speech to UNSC was outstanding and composed!! We owe you a lot to your relentless service to our beloved mother land Ethiopia!!
every representative was calm and cool and collected , all what ethiopia got was little more time, but they were told to go back to the au , in 6 months the un will see the results, egypt sudan too
" we have never boycotted African Union ..." i love his response Thank you Dr. Sileshi for representing the voice of our people about GERD on this platform. Thank God, Ethiopian shall Prevail !!
African Union who is not able to solve any African issue , like Malay civil war or any coupe or massacre war in central Africa plus Tegray region war in your glory country Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan reach security counsel to notified entire world to not get surprised when this dam get blowup soon inshallah.
@@mrevilren6507 you are right , but guess what .. Arab ready sent all Ethiopian back home from Arab countries forever and you become without works or income as usual , or they able to shutdown them airspace’s to your dump airlines to not go through them airspace’s , or to shutdown investment inside Ethiopia too , or a lot of tons of things your dump government will be suffering a lot of it ... what about that my friend ? Trust me Arab and Egyptian so powerfully to destroy your country in min if they want by economically or even by whatever any reason , and as Egyptian who is destroy the legend of Israel military one day in 1973 , they are able to make you cry forever for this evil dam you believe it will give a glory one day ..
@@HB--qd8np come on now let's not be emotional, this dam is never gonna hurt Egypt or Sudan, trust me thus is the truth.. we have no intention of that kind at all.. I'm a Muslim myself. What we want is very small percentage of our share from the water.use your humanity vision not the politics one. Politics is a dirty game my friend
@@ramlulu7888 brother I am agree with you , in case what you said is true so why Ethiopian government won’t to sign an agreement to prove it will keep the amount of water go through to Sudan and Egypt without any reduction ? What about the engineering foundation calculation of this dam ? Here’s that’s a problem your country won’t to sign any agreement to control the water against Sudan and Egypt as an old idea from long time Ethiopian people believed this water is belong to you only ... plus you said Ethiopia has a right to shear the Nile water with Sudan and Egypt !!! For what ? What’s the reason of that ? And you have more than 950 Billion m3 a year , more than Egypt and Sudan 20 times brother , why your government not using this water ? But the evil idea about old Ethiopian is you own the Nile and won’t this water go to Egypt .... but guess what it will be whatever you guys accept or refused and you will see inshallah sooner not later. Salam
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It is not intelligent answers .all what he says is unlogic. How he makes comparison between Egyptian dam and Ethiopian dam . Egyptian dam is in estuary which will not affect Ethiopia any way but Ethiopian dam will affect Egypt and Sudan by blocking too much water to reach Egypt and Sudan and threaten them at anytime .God is fair he will start with u about the evil and greedy that Ethiopia wants. Second the Ethiopian diplomat said that Egypt and Sudan have many see water to desalinization but Ethiopia doesn’t have see water to salinize . I couldn’t imagine how an Ethiopian diplomat say something unitellegence like that .by logic which is better to have a river to drink or to salinize sea water to drink. Also Ethiopia has 9 rivers and many lakes she has 950 billion square feet of water and beside that she wants to block 75 billion square feet of water from Egypt and Sudan that have only the Nile river. In order to generate maximum amount of electricity u don’t need more than 9 billion square feet of water. At the same time Ethiopia has 11 dams and till now she doesn’t know how to generate electricity from them that means that Ethiopia doesn’t know how to manage its resources. All what Ethiopian minister said is unlogic and unintelligent and unrealistic. He doesn’t know how to speak.also before u try to threaten Egypt and Sudan try to save the 7000 Ethiopian soldiers that were captured by the Tigray army
Everyone should respect their elders to avoid any kind of punishments and regrets! That's our natural resource before ethiopia and other countries existence! ;)
The name of the Lord is blessed and lifted high from the marvelous miracle of mercy protected me when i was overwhelmed by my enemies psalm 31:21 Jesus save Ethiopia.
Everyone should respect their elders to avoid any kind of punishments and regrets! That's our natural resource before ethiopia and other countries existence! ;)
That was an awesome interview, he stayed in the facts and wasn't swayed by the questions, he's t right... There's enough water and turning the desert back to green would give much more land for farming in the future, thank you for sharing
Egypt without Nile don't exist. 85% of the Nile water comes from Ethiopia. So Egypt has been destabilising Ethiopia with Europeans help throughout history. Now at last the dam self financed by Ethiopians is a reality. What do Europe (West) and America do. Blatantly or behind the scene siding with Egypt. Now Africa knows what poverty allevation means. Its hidden meaning is poverty perpetuation to keep Africa dependent on Western aid. Europe and America prove this wrong. Or the migration of African economy to the east will be accelerated.
I will feel so sorry for you when you make this trip again very soon to cry front of UN when Sudan & Egypt control the dam land and blowup it soon. Good luck with that.
@@HB--qd8np Egypt and Sudan should desalinate seawater using their immense renewables (notably solar) potential. Learn from the rich gulf countries 🇸🇦🇰🇼🇶🇦🇧🇭🇴🇲🇦🇪. Speaking as a third party observer 🇨🇦.
@@HB--qd8np it’s not Egyptian water, the water source originates in Ethiopia, Egypt used colonial treaties as evidence for Egyptian control over the Nile. Stop being an idiot. Viva Ethiopia!
Very respectfull and well spoken person. He hit all the important points is short minutes it shows Ethiopia is not looking and problem rather just grow with her own water in her own land with her own money with her own people. I don't understand what the world want?
@@LifeTheGlobeTrotter without reaching to a binding agreement , what you are saying is naïve. have a look on real life! what Turkish and Iranian dams did to Iraq although in the case of Egypt it will be even worse. Moreover how can Egypt trust Ethiopia while their political leaders and Ethiopians deal with the Nile as a property that can be possessed refusing to confess Egypt and Sudan water share right even negotiating! Ethiopia have the fully right in development and generate electricity but it have no right to threaten it's neighbors existentially!
Ethiopia is willing to negotiate. Sudan I don't even think understand what they are talking after watching the press conference. They are spending every bodies time. By the way Sudden also donated more than 50 cars and money for the dam. Egypt I don't know what are they afraid the dam will not stop the water. Ethiopia is ready for agreement long time ago. If you just listen what the Engineer say you will get your answer. Ethiopia is contributing the vast majority of the water that gives the country to develop with her own water in her own land with her own people and money. Ethiopia is not building nuclear station is just simple hydro power dam. African should stop tearing each other down when simply can Africa grow together. It is just nonsense. Ethiopia is not the first country building a dam with a river that cross border.
It rains in Ethiopia 🇪🇹,and Cotten grows in the desert of Egypt. It rains in Ethiopia 🇪🇹,and the lights go on Egypt. Ethiopians rains has been magical for Egypt. Time to make that magic work for Ethiopia 🇪🇹.💚💛❤️ እናመሰግናለን ኮርተንባችኋል!
Actually Ethiopia is destroying her neighbors like Sudan[1] Kenya[2] and Somali [3]. [1] according to the minister of foreign affairs [2] gibe iii dam is draining Kenya’s Lake Turkana according to IUCN. [3] although Somalia suffers water crisis, Ethiopia built dams on Jubba River and Shebelle River and used for agriculture. (I don't have solid sources for this point)
Everyone should respect their elders to avoid any kind of punishments and regrets! That's our natural resource before ethiopia and other countries existence! ;)
@@egyptian9182 it originates in Ethiopia so u can’t say it’s your resource, there will come a day that egypt will pay for every single drop of the Nile water
Go Ethiopia go, the entire Sub-Saharan Africa is behind you! Journalists should also be more professional rather than stir and or provoke in such critical times: Al Jazeera just went too far to suggest military actions, so old-fashioned question.
Thank you we African need to stand together this problem is not left to Ethiopia ,the agenda of western power seems make Sub-Saharan country like Libiya, Syrian,They always side with Terrerist group to overthrow the legimate Gov't, in the name of Humaniterian crisis...
We are proud of Dr. Engineer Sileshi and all of Ethiopia. The water is enough for all of us. But, everyone should have to know that no pressure can stop us. We Ethiopians have to strong enough than ever. Excellent explanation Dr. Sileshi
The Lord is the enemy of Satan, Abi Ahmed, who destroyed Tigray and fights in Urmia. The Lord is the enemy of your crimes in Bani Shanqul, the sycamore. The Lord is your enemy when you dried up with the goodness of Turkan. The Lord is your enemy when you cut off the intention of the Lord from Somalia. Terrible, the Lord destroyed the development of Ethiopia
@@diaaahmed7776 The lord is the enemy of setan yea so he is the enemy of ppl who invade true egyptian and even now those invaders r saying pharaons were Arab. they stolen black people history :(
@@diaaahmed7776 keep daydreaming Ethiopia will prosper whether you like it or not. It's not like what you think will happen it will be the other way around. Mark my word!
@@ruthsamuel4860 we are in ground you are blind fighting not stop in ethiopia we destroy development in ethiopia we have many tools to wipe ethiopia from map just watch and count your loses
It's great to see African countries mobilising to end their poverty! Go Ethiopia! The Nile is a resource not just for Egypt. Africans should also benefit from it in order to develop their economy and infrastructure.
Get real guys! The issue here is not about building a dam. It's about the reluctance not to abide by laws governing dam building that affects your neighbors! You have all the rights to your developments; I have all the right to my safety and not get taken captive as a result of it!
@Mesfin T So you are r basically telling me you can build a dam upstream that affects my people downstream and not to have a say on it?! You want to build it at your own terms! Fortunately, it doesn't work that way, since there are international laws that govern this kind situation. all that's asked of you is to abide by them!
thing is it's not only yours it's ours. i do understand some of your frustration which is due to certain misconceptions what the Egyptian government is trying t do is to ONLY CO-ORDINATE the filling of the dam but we are not against it operating in anyway to avoid any harm falling on any people in case of drought which will affect 150 million people the egyptian government is trying to reach diplomatic solution which the ethiopian government has shown no interest in and continue to act aggressively as if the Egypt is a European power that colonised the country , which we did not do, so the ethiopian government can continue to act tough but there will be consequences for such actions and that is just reality. i would like to add that both of our countries are both part of a continent that has been struggling for a long time and hope that we could establish a peaceful solution for the sake of the people of the Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
@@ahmdmnsor Ethiopia always opens her arms for sharing (win win solution) but if Egypt want to control abay that we will a problems we shall all have equal use of abay but Egypt is not happy with sharing, its our Owen water whether you like it or not!!
Your are killers who are willing to deprive Sudan & Egypt from water and flood them whenever you want which we will never allow you to do... we will never die alone.
@@abebayeshitila8570 it’s gift from god as creature to all countries , Ethiopia has a tons of water plus Lake Tana , but unfortunately Ethiopia without qualifications or brains to build a development, Ethiopian super jealous from Egyptian as they build civilization since 7000 years without any kind of civil war or conflict like Ethiopia, whatever what’s Ethiopia intentions is , god will never let anyone to chance his creatures around the world .... plus Egyptian will not let to Ethiopian to control the Nile by anyway , Egyptian prefer to go to war to die there better than anyway else. Good luck with that.
@@HB--qd8np Ethiopia has it's own plan lake tana but currently needs Abay (Nile ) to generate electricity. U use the power of flooding water to create energy, not a stagnant lake. It's Simple physics!! Yes Ethiopia is passing through plenty of conflicts and wars , but don't forget Resources r a reason for any conflict worldwide. No civil war and conflict in Egypt? ... it's because u don't have natural resources. Finally, while u r advocating a war on Ethiopians, don't forget this 👉 for 60 million people living in darkness it is a luxury to die in a war done for turning on its light!!💪 Abay is my river 💪 It's my dam💪
Ethiopian diplomats are well trained and organized focus on win win approach unlike Egyptians and Sudanese who follow their colonizers view than truth. 🤣🤣🤣
The Lord is the enemy of Satan, Abi Ahmed, who destroyed Tigray and fights in Urmia. The Lord is the enemy of your crimes in Bani Shanqul, the sycamore. The Lord is your enemy when you dried up with the goodness of Turkan. The Lord is your enemy when you cut off the intention of the Lord from Somalia. Terrible, the Lord destroyed the development of Ethiopia
If Ethiopia misses this opportunity filling the dam at this rainy season Ethiopia will lose 1 billion usd. That’s the reason Ethiopia is hurry to fill the dam at this season then negotiation will continue any time!
Ethiopians breathe lies. Ethiopia has lost 100 billion by destroying the Tihrai, and lost what it stole from Sudanese lands, and the great ruins will continue in Ethiopia as a result of the injustice of the Tigray, Urmia and Bani Shanqul Hamiz peoples.
We need ethiopian new generation coming in futur who will force Egypt and Sudan for the drops of water the gained from ethiopian River Abay. Insheallah
We need ethiopian new generation coming in futur who will force Egypt and Sudan pay a dollar for the drops of water the are getting from ethiopian River Abay. Insheallah. This will be their pay back for what they are doing now.
Which Allah you worship! Ethiopia is a crusader regime bro! Motivated by hate to Muslim firstly on the Ethiopian soil then in Egypt and Sudan. U have over 900 billion cubic meters of rain can be used for good cause to help people develop and live better without stealing the 60 billion cubic meters leaving the Ethiopian territories. The electricity the dam is supposed to generate is not sufficient to light any thing close to 65 million people living in darkness! U are living in a big lie by those corrupted who exploit the poor only for their own good.
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We are proud of Eng Seleshie Bekele, it’s interesting to hear the entire world is giving so much attention for GERD Dam which is happen to be the only hope for our poor people who lives in darkness for centuries while others are enjoying a decent life! Ethiopia is not the only country who share water with neighboring country, why ours is complex and controversial! So sad and annoying! I think Ethiopia has a legitimate reason to use the water according to the international law we should stick to it🙏🏿
Internationa water that gives right to Egypt and Sudanis to use is that your understanding? Have ever Egypt or Sudan ask or discuss with any one or Ethiopia they use this water from Ethiopia to farm or to any use? Nop ! But When the owner ,the main source of this water is trying to use it now you say International you seem not getting it. Egypt & Sudan like it or not ETHIOPIA IS NOT GOING TO STOP. IT IS CONFUSING to some when none AFRICANS ARE USING this to play politics to impose the black nationsto stay under thier feet.Arabs will side with none black arab speaking & religios ties. But nothing stops. In short it is like this ( IT IS YOUR COW BUT WE ARE THE ONCE MILKING IT).
Exactly ....why do you think Egypt and Sudan are raising unfair questions it's because now they know the Ethiopian officials can get things done unlike the previous morons.
Not true prosper because In Ethiopian history all events were done by TIGRIGNAS spoken peoples some tigray people some ERITRAN people also but from now on Ethiopia is going to Unknown very dark trip
Seriously, anyone with a basic education could spoke better than him , Ethiopia such a country of ignorance and inshallah will be removed from the map soon , today Tegray region declare independence from Ethiopia, tomorrow will be bane shankol , Live your dream till it become a nightmare.
Sudan has won over you and liberated their land from you and defeated you in Tihrai and every day you are killed in Urmia, Ethiopia is being destroyed every day.
The need and humbleness in our representatives tells the people of Ethiopian divastating poor lifestyle suffering...thank you PM ABIY AHMED for keeping us with our DAM..an African country believes in Africanism !!!!
Ethiopians are humble not because of poverty but it is a virtue that any human being with integrity should have. Ethiopians are raised to be humble and respectful but proud and dignified. Never mistake humility for timidness in an Ethiopian.
Yet so suspicious of PM Any Ahmed claiming that the Nile will be Ethiopian lake and don't want to sign any legal bindings to reserve Egypt's and Sudan's rights, what happens if a new president takes authority of Ethiopia now he can raise or lower Nile share at his own well, do you want to leave the fate of millions at the desires of a single human?, Plus Ethiopia doesn't completely control the land around GERD how Egyptians and Sudanese feel safe? There must be international monitoring for this Dam at least African under legal conditions.
@@Maxasim this is such a childish reply ... u think a leader just comes up and ... makes a river a lake ... don't you know the world would be against him if he did ... what kind of childish leader do u think will be like this? .... it is not an issue and you know it... bring another truthful and acceptable debate matter
Finally!!!!! Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah!!! I don't want say anything except GOD IS GREAT 🙏🙏🙏 I can't stop Craying!!! I am proud to be Ethiopia‼‼ 💚💚💛💛❤❤🙏🙏
Question : would you not suspend the filling of the dam as a gesture of good will to get negotiations going again. Do these people not understand there are millions of people who don’t have electricity!?!!! The people cannot wait any longer!
😂 your words is joke buddy , African Union not able to solve any problems in Africa , go check it out the civil war in your country or others war in Africa and what African Union done with that lol .... nothing unfortunately. Don’t worry .. don’t get surprised when you see this dam land get back to Sudan or Egyptian will blowup it soon inshallah “.
Thank you brother. How long are we supposed to put up to this injustice? They are basically telling us don't feed yourselves, we will send you food whenever and however we want as long as you behave and take our order. We Ethiopians say we are the only country to never get colonized, but we are fooling ourselves. As a matter of fact we are in worst system than being colonized . They are telling us we should not even use our resources. Time for Africa to unite.
Thank you, Dr. Seleshi, my hero. you said the fact about our country problem and we are expecting from this dam. yes , we need electricity, clean drinking water , to produce enough food and to create Jobs for our nation. we have no plan to harm any country . period.
Egyptians failed to make convincing arguments to the Security Council not even any calculated moves. Carrying on with the colonial era mentality will take them nowhere. African solutions for African problems, go back to negotiations under AU! A clear victory for Ethiopia!!
Is the security council made a decision yet ? I am totally wondering from Ethiopian who is without any kind of knowledge and make a fake victory from a first meeting of security council , there’s another meeting coming up , then a decision will be made , go read the real news ... and whatever what a security council results , the mean reason for this meeting is to inform the United nation about the problem and what’s the Egypt & Sudan will do after this warning , this dam & Ethiopian government have to pay from them threat to more than 140 million people living in Sudan & Egypt , they have all the right to stop any project on the river Nile for them security and life purpose.
🇺🇬 🇰🇪 🇹🇿 🇷🇼 🇧🇮 and others too deserve to quench thier thersty from the resource from their motherland soils. I encourage such countries to take meaningful measure on their resources.
@@HB--qd8np If you carefully followed the statements and deliberations of the members of the Security Council, they clearly advised Egypt and Sudan to return to African Union-led negotiations. They have faith and strongly believe that's the path which should be taken to reach an agreement but not through the Security Council. I don't think the final outcome will be different from what they have already stated and I don't have any time to read your one-sided news from Egyptian and Arab media. It's wishful thinking; Egypt and Sudan neither have the right nor the power to stop projects in the Nile basin. The balance of power in the basin has forever shifted and the upper riparian countries will and have more say than the mere 2 countries of Egypt and Sudan.
@@kengejamesgunya554 I don’t have a time to read your unrealistic statements as there’s no any kind of finial statement of security council , as I am sure you heard that they recommended to not let any individual action happened without agreement which your glory country keep doing it as usual , will as Egyptian I am sure 100% as you are sure too this dam will be gone cuz your country is not even able to create stability inside your nation ... good luck brother.
@@tilethio are you seriously believing what you said ? Ethiopia has 20 times amount of water ( 950 billion m3 ) more than Sudan & Egypt and you complain about you not able to use water ? Seriously most ignorance and uneducated people ever I met , dude you need to ask your government why they not able using this other resources , but unfortunately your government selecting a Nile river and building a dam on a border with Sudan to just controlling the water to this both country nothing more than it , as your dump irrigation Minster was complaining as little kid to the security council by said 65 million people in Ethiopia suffering from fresh water , and you have more than 9 rivers and tons of water and you not able to use it cuz there’s no stability or even qualify Brains 🧠 to mange it ... seriously pathetic.
''We all always go to negotiations with solution at hand'', '' We have to drink water ... secure food'', ''we are not building the first dam" politeness over loaded Dr sleshi we are a proud people and believe it or not we will finish what we started with the help Almighty God. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
😂😂😂I'M sure the arabic language media will be more interested on this ........LOL .🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰..how confident gentle man he is this is the moral of only Ethiopians
He is stubbing the Arabs. Look at his face, I have never seen Ambassador Taye face gleaning like this before. He is a very wise and patient person tho.
Thank you ambassador Ankeselassie ( forgive me for misspelling your name) and Engineer Dr Sileshie Bekele for your patriotism, service to your country, telling the truth, and accomplishing the country 's goal of completing the GERD.
I love the smile of the Ambassador it shows victory and Eng I am so proud of you.thank you all. Congratulations I am happy that we have strong people to defend our need. Lets celebrate now elelelellele
*It is one of the best day simply to explain about GERD to the World. Thank you Dr. Selshi and Ambassador Akeselassie! There is no universal binding agreement on mother nature rain! It is all up to God willings!*
