With the relative calm of Egypt's regional crises, it seems that the Renaissance Dam crisis continues to flare up, amid Egyptian fears of future threats to their country's water situation and the national security it represents throughout history.

After months of escalation and the threat of military intervention, the western front of Egypt calmed down after a security and diplomatic delegation visited the capital, Tripoli last month, for the first time since 2014, and the Arab region is witnessing a political lull after the Gulf reconciliation, so that the Renaissance Dam crisis remains the most worrying Egyptians, especially After announcing the failure of the negotiations two days ago.

The Renaissance Dam negotiations continued their series of failure after the foreign and irrigation ministers in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia failed to achieve any progress, but what is new this time is that the failure is not related to the negotiations on the Ethiopian dam, but in reaching an acceptable formula to continue negotiations.

Sudan insists on the need to instruct the experts appointed by the African Union Commission to propose solutions to the controversial issues and crystallize the Renaissance Dam agreement, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry statement, which is a proposal that Egypt and Ethiopia have reservations about, confirming the ownership of the three countries of the negotiation process and preserving their right to formulate Texts and provisions of the agreement for filling and operating the Grand Prix dam.

The Egyptian statement added that the African Union experts are not specialists in the technical and engineering fields related to water resources management and dam operation.

However, Sudan defended his point of view, stressing the need to change the methodology of negotiations, giving experts a greater role in facilitating negotiations, and bridging views between the three parties to the crisis.

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Not to stop negotiations

On the other hand, Egypt adheres to the option of negotiations indefinitely, according to the former advisor to the Egyptian Minister of Irrigation, Diaa Al-Din Al-Qusi, who emphasized that "negotiations cannot be stopped, which will continue until we obtain our full rights."

This was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry in its recent statement, by stressing its willingness to engage in serious and effective negotiations in order to reach as soon as possible a legal and binding agreement on the rules for filling and operating the dam.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Qosi stressed that Egypt cannot be complacent about its historical rights and will not accept the suspension of negotiations or the so-called dead end, adding, "If Ethiopia is negotiating in order to negotiate and gain time, it will not stop demanding its rights, especially since Egypt suffers from a water deficit. Large".

Regarding the recent Sudanese position on the negotiations, Al-Qosi praised the new approach to Sudan, which is not consistent with Egypt's position as much as it is consistent with his personal interests and rights, after he supported all Ethiopian steps and departed greatly from the official position, as he put it.

Last July, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia returned to negotiations to resolve differences over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, mediated by the African Union, which holds the presidency of the current session of the African Union after the failure of US mediation in February of the same year.

Earlier, the Sudanese Minister of Irrigation, Yasser Abbas, explicitly declared his country’s concerns, “because the Renaissance Dam represents a direct threat to the Rossaires reservoir, whose storage capacity is less than 10% of the capacity of the Renaissance Dam if it is filled and operated without an agreement and a daily exchange of data.”

Sudan also lodged a strong protest to Ethiopia and the African Union regarding a letter sent by Ethiopia to the Union on January 8, in which it affirmed the continuation of the process of filling the dam next July, at about 13.5 billion cubic meters, regardless of whether an agreement is reached or not.

The only solution

And on whether the recent Sudanese positions regarding the progress of the Renaissance Dam negotiations are in the interest of Egypt, the Sudanese academic and researcher on African affairs, Mohamed Ahmed Dwina, said that “Ethiopia is benefiting from the weakness of the Egyptian and Sudanese negotiators alike, and what is happening here or there is a hollow theorizing. ".

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Dwina accused Ethiopia of seeking to prolong the life of negotiations to gain time, noting that when Washington and the World Bank reached a final document and the time of signing came, Ethiopia missed, Sudan reserved and Egypt signed, and Ethiopia carried out the first filling on its own.

Dwina used the term "hollow" to describe the continuation of negotiations for a few months to come, when one party is absent and another is reserved, while Ethiopia will implement the second filling 5 months from now, after which there is no need for negotiations.

He warned that Ethiopia would continue to construct new dams on the tributaries of the Blue Nile, with the aim of separating the arteries feeding the main vein of the Nile, adding, "Here the Blue Nile is depleting and the scourge on the two countries is greater than the Renaissance Dam."

The only solution for Sudan and Egypt - according to the Sudanese academic - is to resort to international arbitration, which begins with stopping work on the dam and committing Ethiopia to a comprehensive agreement.

Cairo, which relies on the water of the Nile River by 97% to meet its needs, is concerned about the potential 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 Sudan gets 18.5 billion.

"The intentions of Abi Ahmed are revealed and our situation must be changed." ... Comment of the former minister, Mohamed Mahsoub, on Ethiopia's announcement that a new dam will start.

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) January 10, 2021

“Ethiopia was supported to go beyond its borders in the file of the Renaissance Dam.” Televised statements by the President of the Arab Parliament, Adel Abdul Rahman Al-Asoumi pic.twitter.com/TMBJuSnmHk

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) January 9, 2021

One of what the Zionists talk about the most since the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolutions is the weakening of the "strategic environment" surrounding their entity, and they mean the countries of the Great Arab Ring: Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

They have achieved the defeat of Iraq and Syria, as for Egypt, they do not need to be destroyed, as thirst will kill it as a result of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam pic.twitter.com/bgJoZ6BZoP

- Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqeeti (@mshinqiti) January 12, 2021