Khartoum announces tripartite talks over a week

Egypt stresses the importance of reaching a "binding agreement" regarding the Renaissance Dam

The upcoming meetings aim to complete the compilation and revision of the Grand Renaissance Dam Agreement.

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Egypt affirmed the importance of implementing the decisions of the African Union Bureau’s meetings by reaching a binding legal agreement regarding the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that achieves the common interests of the three countries (Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia) and secures their water interests, while Sudan announced tripartite talks over a week on the dam.

The Egyptian assertion came during a meeting of the foreign ministers, water resources and irrigation from the three countries headed by the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs, currently President of the African Union, Nalidi Bandor, and with the participation of observers from the members of the African Union, the European Union and the United States office, in order to discuss how to re-launch negotiations on the dam. Ethiopian.

The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation stated, the day before yesterday, that the meeting ended with a decision to direct Sudan, as the country that holds the rotating presidency of the meetings of the three countries, to call for meetings that extend for a period of a week “with the aim of completing the compilation and revision of the draft of the Renaissance Dam Agreement, which were the three countries. Has begun preparing it during the last round of negotiations ».

For its part, Khartoum announced that it will organize negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for a week, following a video conference that brought together the foreign ministers of the three countries.

"The three countries agreed to hold a follow-up meeting to be called by Sudan as soon as possible to submit a report to the presidency of the African Union within one week on ways to achieve tangible progress in the stalled negotiations since the end of last August," said a statement issued by the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation.

The statement added that the three countries agreed that "the Sudanese side calls for holding meetings for a period of one week with the aim of completing the compilation and revision of the draft agreement on the Renaissance Dam."

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