Its works are at an advanced stage .. The government of Ethiopia meets to discuss the file of the Renaissance Dam

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed held a meeting with the participation of ministers and senior state leaders related to the Renaissance Dam on the one hand, and the direction of future negotiations on it on the other hand, in light of the ongoing disagreement between Ethiopia and Egypt about operating the dam and filling its reservoir.

The government meeting comes two days after the Ethiopian government confirmed that no final agreement was reached during the last round of negotiations in Washington between delegations representing Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, under the auspices of the US Treasury.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced last Thursday about a final agreement that was led to by the recent negotiations in Washington, but the Ethiopian Water Minister Celici Baqeli and other officials in his country's government indicated that progress had been made without a definitive settlement.

The US Treasury announced - after the last round of tripartite negotiations - that Washington agreed to facilitate preparations to conclude the final agreement on the operation and filling of the dam for submission to ministers and presidents of the countries concerned for signature by the end of this month.

Dam works
Meanwhile, engineer Blacho Kasa, deputy director of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project, told the island that 86% of the dam's construction work has been completed.

"Palazzo Casa" added that six European and Chinese companies work around the clock to complete all aspects of construction and technical work, to start filling the dam according to plans in next June, and the dam will be ready for partial production of electrical energy early next year.

The two water channels that will drive two turbines are equipped from the 13 turbines, which will represent the total production capacity of the dam in the future.

During this week, the construction company will start building concrete belts for the turbines. Once completed, the dam will generate more than six thousand megawatts of electrical energy.

Ethiopia began building the dam in 2011 at a cost of four billion dollars, and expects to complete it in 2022.

Egypt - which depends 90% on the Nile water - worries about the impact of the Renaissance Dam on the flow of river water to it, while Ethiopia says it does not aim to harm Egypt's interests, stressing that the aim of the dam is to generate electricity in the first place.