An official source in the Sudanese government confirmed that his country has no objection to the resumption of the Renaissance Dam negotiations under the leadership of the African Union with a new methodology, after Ethiopia said that it does not mind resuming negotiations without signing a final agreement.
The official source told Al Jazeera that Sudan does not object to the resumption of negotiations, provided that they are in a new methodology and within a specific time frame, with the need to expand the mediation circle to include international parties.
The Sudanese official stressed that if there was sufficient political will, only six months would be enough to reach an agreement.
He added that they consider Ethiopia's announcement of the completion of the second filling process as planned, as a mere political declaration directed at the Ethiopian interior.
He stated that their estimates of the water that was seized during this process is between 3 and 4 billion cubic meters, not 13.5 billion cubic meters as Ethiopia had intended.
He stressed that Sudan will spare no effort in reaching a comprehensive and binding legal agreement that guarantees a smooth and timely flow of information on the filling and operation of the dam, and that takes into account the interests of all and enables Ethiopia to benefit from the dam project.
He also stressed that the Sudanese position is based on technical data and the country's national interest.
The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry had said that Addis Ababa does not mind seeking a profitable agreement on filling and operating the dam, without signing a final agreement, and expressed its readiness to resume negotiations at any time decided by the African Union leadership.
Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dina Mufti reiterated his country's position that the leaders of Egypt and Sudan were informed of the second mobilization in the context of exchanging information regarding the filling of the Renaissance Dam.
Earlier today, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that the second mobilization of the Renaissance Dam was carried out cautiously and beneficially to reduce the flood from the direct downstream country.
Abi Ahmed sent - in a tweet on Twitter - a message to the two downstream countries: Sudan and Egypt, during which he reiterated that the Renaissance Dam will not harm them.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister described the Renaissance Dam project as a gain and a true symbol of joint growth and cooperation, and indicated that the process of second filling of the Renaissance Dam was completed on July 20.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Addis Ababa, Hassan Razak, said that the Ethiopian Prime Minister's tweet came in Arabic, and indicated that this message of reassurance paves the way, according to observers, that the upcoming negotiations will be flexible and peaceful negotiations, given that the concerns that were raised in the Security Council, the Arab League or any forums Others, all of them are incorrect concerns, and the evidence is that the mobilization was completed.
Amid the stalled negotiations for months, Ethiopia on the 5th of this month 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.
On the 8th of the same month, the UN Security Council concluded that it is necessary to re-negotiate the Renaissance Dam intensively, under the auspices of the African Union, in order to sign a binding legal agreement that meets the needs of the three countries.