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07:14 pm
Saturday 29 August 2020
Agencies:
Sudan’s Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said there is a significant slowdown in the progress of the tripartite Renaissance Dam negotiations between Cairo, Khartoum and Addis Ababa, noting that disagreements have turned into the totality of problems. .
At a press conference reported by Sputnik, the Russian news agency, on Saturday, Abbas said that Sudan is ready to continue negotiations on the Renaissance dam even though they are stalled.
He added that “the divergence of positions between Egypt and Ethiopia was the reason for stalling the negotiations on the Renaissance dam.”
On Friday, the Ministry of Irrigation said that based on the results of the mini African summit, which was held on July 21, and the meeting of six bands of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Irrigation of the three countries (Egypt – Sudan – Ethiopia), which took place on August 16, a meeting led by ministers was held on Friday. The water of the three countries is sponsored by the African Union and in the presence of observers from the member states of the Bureau of the African Union, the United States and the European Union.
The meetings began with an exchange of keynote speeches between the ministers, and the Egyptian delegation reviewed the results of the legal and technical committee’s work on the initial consolidated version of the three countries’ proposals.
It should be noted that there is still a lack of agreement between the three countries, in many legal and technical points with respect to the aforementioned initial combined version prepared by the three countries, which has not yet been up to its presentation before the Office of the Union. African, led by South Africa.
After a lengthy discussion on the negotiations over the next period, the water ministers agreed at the end of the meeting to send each country individually a letter to the president of South Africa, including their vision for the next stage of the negotiations.
