Renaissance Dam negotiations reached a dead end .. Sisi: All our institutions are committed to the protection of water rights

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that "the Egyptian state with all its institutions is committed to protecting the Egyptian water rights in the Nile water", following the announcement of the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation that the negotiations of the Renaissance Dam reached a dead end.

Sisi wrote on Twitter that Egypt continues to "take the necessary measures at the political level and within the limits of international law to protect these rights, and the eternal Nile will continue to be strongly linking the South with the North in the bond of history and geography."

Earlier on Saturday, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement that it looked forward to the United States playing an active role, especially in light of the deadlocked negotiations between the three countries.

She stressed that the negotiations did not lead to any tangible progress, which reflects the need for an effective international role to overcome the current stumbling in the negotiations, and to bridge the views between the three countries, and reach a fair and balanced agreement.

It stressed its openness to every international mediation effort to reach the desired agreement.

The Egyptian presidency welcomed the White House statement on the ongoing negotiations on the Renaissance Dam.

On Thursday, a White House statement said the administration supports ongoing negotiations to reach a cooperative, sustainable and mutually beneficial agreement on filling and operating the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Impasse
The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources announced after a meeting of ministers of water resources from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, that the Renaissance Dam negotiations reached a dead end as a result of the Ethiopian side's hardness and rejection of all proposals that take into account Egypt's water interests.

In contrast, Ethiopian Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Salshi Baql said the Renaissance Dam negotiations had not reached a dead end.

The Ethiopian minister said that his country refuses to mediate from any side, and that negotiations will continue between the three countries to reach an agreement.

Al Jazeera Net correspondent in Khartoum Ahmed Fadl said that Sudan and Ethiopia rejected an Egyptian proposal to enter a fourth party as a mediator in the tripartite talks.

She added that the two countries called for giving the technical research committees more time to reach agreement on the points of disagreement based on the success achieved by the committee.

The correspondent quoted sources that the two countries demanded that the technical research committees be given more time to reach agreement on the points of disagreement based on the success achieved by the committee.

The $ 4 billion Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam was announced in 2011 and was designed to be the cornerstone of Ethiopia's bid to become Africa's largest energy exporter by generating electricity of more than 6,000 megawatts.

The dam carries economic benefits to Ethiopia and Sudan, but Egypt fears that it will restrict already limited supplies of the Nile, which uses its water for drinking, agriculture and industry.

Egypt relies on the Nile for 90% of its water.