Mohamed ElBaradei, the former Egyptian Vice President, called for the preparation of a "white book" to explain the damages of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Egypt.
ElBaradei - who was holding the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency - suggested that an independent panel of international experts be commissioned to prepare a "white book" explaining the harm to Egypt, which could result from filling the Renaissance Dam without agreement between the three countries Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.
In a tweet on Twitter, ElBaradei considered that the existence of such an independent study helps in any political efforts to reach an acceptable solution, especially at that critical juncture over how to fill the dam.
ElBaradei lives outside Egypt after he submitted his resignation from the post of Vice President in the wake of the dispersal of the sit-in of supporters of the late President Mohamed Morsi in the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, which killed thousands.
The local media launched a severe attack on ElBaradei from time to time, describing him as a "traitor and a client" because of his statements opposing the policies of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, especially with regard to human rights and foreign policy.
It may be useful at that critical juncture over how to fill the Renaissance Dam by mandating an independent panel of international experts to prepare a "white book" explaining "significant damage" to Egypt that could result from filling without agreement. Having such an independent study will assist in any political effort to find an acceptable solution
- Mohamed ElBaradei (@ElBaradei) June 18, 2020
ElBaradei's statements come at a time when the negotiating parties on the Renaissance Dam failed to reach a final agreement, as last Wednesday, videoconference sessions between the three countries concerned ended without reaching an agreement.
Mohamed Abdel-Atty, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt, said that the Renaissance Dam negotiations that were conducted over the past period had achieved little progress because of "Ethiopian intransigence."
Earlier, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Guido Andargashio accused Egypt of obstructing tripartite negotiations on the Renaissance Dam, saying that the Egyptian stubbornness has become a stumbling block in the negotiations, calling on the international community to recognize this fact and put pressure on Cairo.
Egypt said last Saturday that the tripartite talks on the Renaissance Dam on the Nile River had been blocked due to the "intransigence" of Addis Ababa, and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry raised the possibility of resorting to the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, the US National Security Council called on the Ethiopian government to reach a just settlement of the Renaissance Dam.
This council stated in a tweet that 275 million people east of the African continent are counting on Ethiopia to show strong leadership, which means a fair deal is concluded, adding that the technical problems related to the dam have been resolved, and it is time to reach an agreement before the process of filling the dam with the waters of the Nile begins.
The massive dam - which Ethiopia began building about a decade ago - has become a source of tension between the Nile Basin countries, where Addis Ababa considers the dam to be necessary for it to achieve development and electric power generation, while Cairo and Khartoum see it as a threat to their water resources.