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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 41, March 2022

but that it is now a global power who is Capable of Egypt recognized Ethiopia with its right to build the
confrontation and confrontation, and he believes that dam in exchange for a binding commitment, but this
the war is now in Russia's interest and that NATO did not happen. Other parties, such as the United
cannot intervene, otherwise a third world war will States, intervened in the crisis, whose efforts to
occur in the world. He also believes that Russia has address the crisis in the era of Trump failed, and the
been drawn into this war to impose sanctions that United Nations and the Security Council were also
limit its power. unable to find a final solution to the crisis. Therefore,
to this day, there is no clear agreement between the
two parties, and the Egyptian side until now is
depending on negotiation, diplomacy, and mediation
in order not to resort to a military solution. The
Egyptian government is now working on finding
alternatives to solve the crisis, such as the water
desalination project. What is new in the crisis is that
Sudan is now on the side of Egypt, because it
realizes the danger of the dam to its national security.
Finally, Dr. Ahmed El-Sayed believes that The
options are now open to Egypt to choose any
solution to this crisis, whether diplomatic or military.

We then went on to another problem that
occupies a major portion of Egyptians' concerns,
as the Ethiopian party continues to deal
unilaterally with the Renaissance Dam situation.
We were curious as to how the doctor views the
present state of this case.
He sees that the problem of the Renaissance Dam is a
complex problem and has legal and international
dimensions, as it is not just a crisis between Egypt,
Sudan, and Ethiopia, and that Egypt's position is
clear and it does not object to the construction of the
dam by Ethiopia, and Ethiopia recognizes the right to
development and electricity generation in accordance
with an agreement to declare Principles, but on the
other hand, Egypt sees that it is talking about its And finally, "What is your message to students of
historical right to the waters of the Nile and its right the Faculty of Economics and Political Students?"
to reach a binding legal agreement regarding the Dr. Ahmed forwarded an effective message to the
filling and operation of the dam. The discussion was students of the Faculty of Economics and Political
about the rules of filling, as Egypt wanted the filling Science about the importance of investing in oneself,
to be over a period of 7 to 10 years so as not to developing personal skills, working on weighting
detract from its historical share, but the Ethiopian personal experience, paying attention to foreign
side believes that the dam must be filled from 3 to 5 languages, mastering knowledge skills, attending
years, even at the level of operating the dam and various seminars and conferences organized by the
generating Electricity considers Egypt the need to college and outside, and always trying to prepare for
reach an agreement in order not to harm its interests the labor market, as well as being proud to be a
and considers that this is its right because it is the member of the Faculty which is truly a factory of
downstream country, and despite all this in 2015 Elite.

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