The third round of negotiations on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam started in Khartoum with the participation of technical committees and irrigation ministers in Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and attended by observers from the US Treasury and the World Bank.
The two-day debate will focus on the views of the three countries on the rules for the process of filling and operating the Renaissance Dam.
During the opening session, Sudanese Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, Yasser Abbas, expressed optimism that a vision of the solution would be reached during the meeting.
The third meeting is out of four at a ministerial level, and it aims to reach an agreement to resolve the dispute between the three countries, according to the outputs of the meeting of foreign ministers of these countries in Washington early November.
On November 6, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed in Washington to hold four technical meetings, two of which were held in Addis Ababa in the middle of the same month, and the second in Cairo on December 2, and Khartoum currently hosts the third, and the fourth is scheduled To be held in Addis Ababa later.
These meetings include two evaluation meetings, one in Washington on December 9, and the other on January 13, 2020.
Cairo fears the potential negative impact of the Renaissance Dam, which Addis Ababa has been building since 2011, on the flow of its annual share of the Nile's 55 billion cubic meters of water, while Sudan gets 18.5 billion.
On the other hand, Addis Ababa says that it does not aim to harm Cairo's interests, and stresses that the aim of building the dam is to generate electricity.