Sudan will follow all means to protect its security, citizens

Sudan would follow all possible means for protecting its security and citizens based on international laws values amid the Ethiopian intransigent during Renaissance Dam negotiations, the Sudanese Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation, and Electricity announced on Tuesday.

Ambassador Ahmed Hafez, the official spokesman of Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, stated that the round of negotiations held in Kinshasa on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on April 4 and 5 did not achieve any progress nor lead to lead to launch negotiations.

Ethiopia refused the Sudanese proposal, which Egypt supported, to form a quartet committee chaired by the Republic of Democratic Congo which chairs the  African Union to mediate between the three parties.

Ethiopia also discarded, over Kinshasa’s meeting, all suggestions and alternatives presented by both states to develop negotiations to enable the countries and other parties that participate in the talks as observers to be more active in the negotiations and to find technical and legal solutions to disputes between the three counties.

Ethiopia rejected an Egyptian proposal that  supported by Sudan during the concluding session to launch talks held under the supervision of the Congolese President along with the participation of observers according to the standing mechanism of negotiations.

These proposals prove without doubt the elasticity and responsibility of both Egypt and Sudan and assure their serious want to reach an agreement on the Ethiopian dam.

Ethiopia’s refusal of these proposals led to failing the meeting to re-launch the negotiations again.