Sudan and Ethiopia - in talks held by Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok with his Ethiopian counterpart, Abiy Ahmed, in Addis Ababa - agreed to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam next week.

The issue of the Renaissance Dam was on the agenda of the talks that Hamdok conducted during a visit that lasted a few hours to the Ethiopian capital, and was scheduled to last two days, according to what was announced by the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

In statements at Khartoum Airport upon the return of the Sudanese delegation, the Sudanese Foreign Minister in charge, Omar Qamar al-Din, said that the talks were successful by all standards, as he described.

The announcement of the resumption of the Renaissance Dam negotiations came after a break for several weeks.

Due to the divergence of views between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, and all previous rounds failed to come up with an agreement on the mechanisms of filling and operating the dam, which sparked severe tensions between Addis Ababa and Cairo, and reached the point of talking about a possible military confrontation.

A week ago, the Sudanese foreign minister in charge of Sudan accused Ethiopia of working to enter the water-sharing agreement in negotiations to fill and operate the dam on the Blue Nile River near the Ethiopian-Sudanese borders, stressing that this work will enter negotiations in what he described as a maze.

Qamar al-Din indicated that the internationalization of the issue of the Renaissance Dam will be the last solution for his country's government, in case the parties do not reach a binding and fair agreement regarding the filling and operation of the dam.

Before that, Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said that "the continuation of the negotiations of the Renaissance Dam, in the manner and methodology used in the previous rounds, led to both Ethiopia and Egypt retreating from their stated positions."

Sudan had announced that it would not accept the second filling of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam without an agreement, stressing its refusal to resort to force in addressing the crisis.

For its part, Egypt announced at the beginning of last November that there was no consensus with Sudan and Ethiopia on the methodology for completing the Renaissance Dam negotiations, and Cairo demanded a binding agreement for all parties regarding the filling and operation of the Renaissance Dam.

Cairo fears the negative impact of the dam on the flow of its annual share of the Nile River water, amounting to 55.5 billion cubic meters, while Addis Ababa says it does not aim to harm the interests of Egypt or Sudan.