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Sudan on Tuesday called for experts and observers to play a greater role in the next round of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in order to use a new approach and hopefully reach an agreement.
During a virtual meeting for the foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, the Sudanese foreign ministry released a statement affirming its adherence to the negotiation process as the only means to reach a satisfactory agreement.
According to the Sudanese News Agency, the statement also expressed Sudan’s reservation to continue negotiations with the same previous approach that had led to a dead end in previous rounds and its proposal to give a greater role to experts and observers in the negotiation process.
There are specific technical and legal issues still under discussion, said Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas, for example to what extent the terminated agreement would be mandatory, what mechanism will be used to resolve disputes over the agreement and the link between the agreement reached with other agreements on Nile water issues.
Abbas stressed that “the achievement of a satisfactory and binding tripartite agreement requires the political will of the leaders of the countries concerned”.
Negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, which took place under the auspices of the African Union, have been suspended since last August.
The negotiations failed to reach an agreement between the three countries and ended after Ethiopia announced the end of the first phase of filling the dam.
Negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam resumed on Tuesday, two months after Egypt’s withdrawal from the talks, African Union President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday.
Egypt, which receives more than 90 percent of its supplies from the Nile’s scarce freshwater and fears the Renaissance dam will destroy its economy, withdrew negotiations in August after Ethiopia proposed a new timetable for the filling the dam.
The United States cut $ 100 million in aid to Ethiopia in September due to its location on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
In May, Ethiopian lawmakers said that “no force on the face of the earth” will stop the completion of the dam and that they were ready to defend it from both internal and external attacks.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
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