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CAIRO, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) – The legal and technical committee, made up of experts from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, concluded its meetings on the disputed Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) built on the Nile River on Monday.
Mohamed al-Sebai, spokesman for Egypt’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, said that the expert committee concluded its meetings, during which the process of the next ministerial negotiations on the filling and functioning of the GERD was discussed.
The recent round of talks by the three countries on the filling and functioning of the GERD began on Sunday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
The three countries also agreed to work during the week-long round to establish an agenda, as well as a timetable for the negotiations and a list of the results to be achieved with the help of observers and experts in a different way than the previous rounds.
Meanwhile, al-Sebai revealed that the three countries will present their views during a virtual meeting of their water ministers scheduled for tomorrow.
Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have been negotiating under the auspices of the African Union on technical and legal issues related to the filling and operation of the GERD.
Ethiopia, which began building the GERD in 2011, expects to produce more than 6,000 megawatts of electricity from the project to boost the country’s development.
However, Egypt and Sudan, both downstream Nile basin countries that depend on the Nile River for water, are concerned that the dam could affect their share of Nile water. End product
