Mursi says 'all options open' on Ethiopia Nile dam
CAIRO | Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday he would keep "all
options" open to defend Egypt's water supply from being affected by a giant
new dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile but he added that Cairo did not
want war.
In a televised speech to Islamist supporters in Cairo, Mursi used emotive
language to underline the importance of the Nile waters to Egypt: "We are
not advocates of war, but we will never permit our water security ... to be
threatened," he said.
(Reporting by Tom Perry; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)