Burhan on GERD: Peaceful Options Are Possible

Head of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC), Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan commented on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

 

Burhan announced that his country does not seek to solve the borders and water crises with Ethiopia militarily, but ‘peaceful solutions are possible.'

 

The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the process of the 2nd filling of the GERD will proceed as planned.

 

On Sunday, Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi held a meeting with ambassadors of African Union (AU) member states.

 

At the outset of the meeting, Al-Mahdi provided a detailed explanation of the outcomes of the Kinshasa-based talks on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), confirming Sudan’s firm position on the necessity of reaching a legally binding agreement before Ethiopia’s second filling of the dam.

 

She looked forward to African countries’ support to reach comprehensive solutions that are satisfactory to all parties.

 

Last Wednesday, Sudan’s Minister of Irrigation, Yasser Abbas warned that the failure to reach a fair and binding agreement on GERD threatens regional security and peace.

 

“Sudan has begun preparing for the lack of water levels in front of the dams,” Abbas said in a press conference on the results of Kinasha- based Talks on GERD, adding: “We will make sure to store one billion cubic meters of water in the Roseires Dam.”

Moreover, He added that Ethiopia rejected all the Egyptian and Sudanese proposals in Kinshasa.

 

On Tuesday, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the latest round of African Union (AU) sponsored trilateral talks between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia that were held in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attempt to re-launch deadlocked negotiations over the disputed GERD failed to reach an agreement.