European Union Foreign Policy Commissioner Josep Borrell said that the solution to the Renaissance Dam crisis is achieved through dialogue, and that the Union understands the concerns of Egypt and Sudan regarding the dam crisis.

In parallel, the Director General of Ethiopian Meteorology said that the second filling of the Renaissance Dam may be completed ahead of schedule due to heavy rains.

In the same context, a senior government source told Al Jazeera that they had heard of an initiative by the African Union to resume negotiations on the Renaissance Dam.

The source added that Khartoum had not yet received an official notification about the initiative, in response to news that the African Union had called over the past two days for the parties concerned with the issue of the Renaissance Dam to a new round of negotiations.

For her part, the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, considered that the unilateral Ethiopian moves in mobilizing the Renaissance Dam are harmful to her country, and should be condemned.

In a press conference in Moscow with her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, the Sudanese minister praised the Russian role in the Security Council rejecting unilateral moves in the issue of the Renaissance Dam.

Egypt appreciates a European statement

For its part, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that it appreciates the statement of the European Union, which criticized the start of Ethiopia's second mobilization of the Renaissance Dam unilaterally, without reaching an agreement with the two downstream countries.

The Foreign Ministry added in a statement that Minister Sameh Shoukry reiterated - during his meeting with the foreign ministers of the European Union - the importance of developing a road map that guarantees reaching a fair and binding agreement, within a specific time frame, regarding the filling and operation of the Renaissance Dam.

Meanwhile, the European Union foreign ministers are holding their monthly meeting in Brussels, which will be devoted to discussing developments in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia.

Borrell made it clear that the Renaissance Dam crisis is not on the agenda of the ministers' meeting, but it will be discussed within the framework of the item on Ethiopia and in the context of talking about the Tigray region.

On the sidelines of the meeting, the European ministers will meet with Shoukry and his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, to discuss developments in the Palestinian territories and ways to resume the peace process, and the Egyptian viewpoint on developments in the construction of the Renaissance Dam will be heard.