ADDIS ABABA - The Prime Minister of Egypt will be visiting Ethiopia on the 13th and 14th of May, Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt said. Ambassador Mahmoud Dirir, who led the 48 member Egyptian public diplomacy delegation to Ethiopia, told WIC that Dr. Essam Sharaf, premier of Egypt, is scheduled to meet with Ethiopian counterparts to discuss relations between the two countries. The Egyptian delegation currently on a visit to Ethiopia have already met with Girma Wolde Giorgis, President of the republic, Abadula Gemeda and Kassa Tekleberhan, speakers of House of People's Representatives (HPR) and House of Federation (HoF), respectively. “This is a gesture of stretching hand of friendship to Ethiopia after the Egyptian revolution of January 25,” Ambassador Mahmoud told WIC. The Ambassador said that the government of Ethiopia has explained to the delegation that the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Nile River is never meant to hurt Sudan or Egypt. “The discourse we hear from them is new,” said the Ambassador. “They say that Ethiopia has every right for development”. Ambassador Mahmoud said that this was not the case in the in the past behavior of former Egyptian politicians and some Egyptian elites. “Creating mutual trust will enable the two countries to surmount the little misunderstanding that exist in the psyche of our Egyptian brothers,” the Ambassador said.
