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In the midst of the recent escalation of Ethiopian positions, following the declaration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, a few days ago that Egypt could blow up the Renaissance dam, one of the most vital projects for Addis Ababa, the foreign ministers and Riego from Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will meet tomorrow Tuesday under the auspices of the African Union and at the invitation of the South. Africa, to discuss ways to resume negotiations on the Renaissance Dam.
In this context, the Sudanese Minister of Irrigation, Yasser Abbas, confirmed in a message to the South African Minister of International Cooperation on Monday the adherence of Khartoum to the tripartite negotiations to reach a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Renaissance dam, highlighting that Sudan cannot continue the negotiations with the same methods and methods that were followed during the previous rounds, which led to a dead end in the 24-hour negotiations, according to the Sudanese news agency “SUNA”.
In addition, Abbas asked to support the upcoming negotiations with a new mandate from the heads of state of the African Union Council, adding that Sudan will participate in Tuesday’s meeting to discuss the creation of negotiation methods and approaches different from those followed in the last round.
Dam of the Great Renaissance (France Press Archive)
Notably, the website of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had announced early Monday the resumption of tripartite negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Renaissance dam, starting tomorrow Tuesday.
He also made it clear that the resumption of negotiations will be under the auspices of Africa, noting that this step came after intensive consultations with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Ministers Abi Ahmed and Sudan Abdullah. Hamdouk.
This comes after several rounds of African Union-sponsored negotiations stopped without reaching a conclusion on this thorny issue, which Ethiopia considers a vital expedient, while Egypt and Sudan fear it. Cairo had previously announced the impossibility of reaching a common formula on the Renaissance dam, following the end of the last round of negotiations that the African Union convened on August 28, due to Ethiopian intransigence and the stagnation of the situation since then until now.
