Negotiations on Filling, Operating "GERD" Resume

Ministers of irritation in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia are resuming, on Sunday, negotiations to fill and operate the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed to attend one-week-long of talks in Khartoum to set a time frame and framework for resuming negotiations at the joint meeting of the Ministers of Water Affairs last Tuesday, chaired by Ms. Jay Bandura, the Minister of International Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, the chair of the current session of the African Union.

“The three countries will work during the one-week session on setting a clear-cut and detailed agenda and a specific timetable for the track of negotiation, besides a clear list of the outputs that must be reached in a way that can be used by observers and experts in a manner that is different from the situation in the pasts sessions,” according to statement issued by the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation.

Meanwhile, the head of Sudan delegation for the negotiations Dr. Salih Hamad pointed out that Sudan has expressed its rejection at the previous meeting to continue the negotiations in the same method that led to a deadlock in the past rounds.

“Sudan has presented several proposals to give a greater role for experts and observers in the negotiation process to bring closer the views of the three countries,” Hamad added.