An American official confirmed that the Renaissance Dam crisis is a regional crisis that does not concern Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia only, after the United States, China and Russia considered during a Security Council session that the African Union is the most appropriate umbrella to resolve the dispute, while Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed called on Egypt and Sudan to be reassured not to be harmed .

In an interview with a program from Washington on Al Jazeera on Friday, the regional spokesman for the US State Department, Samuel Werberg, said that the United States sees the Renaissance Dam crisis as a regional crisis that does not concern Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia only, stressing that Washington is ready to provide assistance in resolving the crisis.

This comes a day after a session was devoted to discussing the file in the Security Council, which returned the issue of the Renaissance Dam to the African Union, calling on the three countries to proceed with the negotiation path without specifying a time limit, as demanded by Egypt and Sudan.

During the session, the Egyptian Foreign Minister said that the process led by the African Union has reached a dead end, adding that his country will defend the interests of its citizens by all available means.

The Egyptian minister added, "If our rights are threatened, we will have nothing left but to protect our inherent right to life," adding that every effort must be made, through the Security Council, to prevent the dam from becoming a threat to Egypt's existence.

But Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that the Renaissance Dam will only take a small part of the flow, and the Roseires dam will be more resilient.

In a tweet to him on Twitter in Arabic, Abi Ahmed assured the Sudanese and Egyptians that "they will never be subjected to significant harm because of the filling of the dam," noting that the dam will be a source of cooperation between the three countries, as he put it.

Abi Ahmed concluded by saying that by doing so, the communities around the Nile would be assured of achieving mutual prosperity.

The Roseires reservoir is a concrete hydroelectric dam named after the Sudanese city of Roseires, about 20 km from the Renaissance Dam and 550 km from the capital, Khartoum.

development project

On the other hand, Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Seleshi Begley expressed Addis Ababa's rejection of any political pressure.

In turn, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dina Mufti, said that the members of the UN Security Council expressed a unified position that the Renaissance Dam is not one of the council's competences, because it is a development project.

Mufti added in a press conference that the GCC states confirmed their support for the negotiations between the three countries under the auspices of the African Union, stressing that the Security Council's decision is a "great diplomatic victory for the country."

Fill in without conditions

And last Monday, Ethiopia notified the two countries downstream of the Nile, Egypt and Sudan, to start a second filling process of the dam with water, without reaching a tripartite agreement, which Cairo and Khartoum rejected as a unilateral measure.

Addis Ababa insists on implementing a second filling of the dam with water in July and next August, even if it did not reach an agreement on it, and says that it does not aim to harm Khartoum and Cairo, and that the aim of the dam is to generate electricity for development purposes.

While Egypt and Sudan are committed to first reaching a tripartite agreement on the filling and operation of the dam, to ensure the continued flow of their annual share of the Nile waters.