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The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources in Egypt announced the end of the fourth and final meeting of the Renaissance Dam negotiations between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, which was held in Addis Ababa, without achieving any results.
The ministry said in a statement: “The meeting did not result in any result due to the continuation of the same Ethiopian positions rejecting over the past years to adopt any of the technical and legal compromise solutions that would secure the interests of the three countries, and Ethiopia’s persistence in reneging on the understandings reached that meet its declared interests.”
The ministry stressed that Egypt will closely monitor the process of filling and operating the Renaissance Dam, and that Egypt reserves its right guaranteed under international conventions to defend its water and national security. “It has become clear that the Ethiopian side intends to continue to exploit the negotiating cover to establish a fait accompli on the ground, and to negotiate with the aim of extracting an instrument of consent from the two downstream countries on Ethiopia’s absolute control over the Blue Nile in disregard of international law,” the ministry added.
The latest round of negotiations began in the Ethiopian capital last Monday, amid Egyptian-Sudanese aspirations to reach a binding legal agreement on the operation and filling of the Ethiopian dam, built on the main tributary of the Nile River, in a way that guarantees the rights of all parties.
This round of negotiations is the latest as it comes within the framework of an agreement between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, announced last July, on the sidelines of the summit of Sudan’s neighboring countries in Cairo, to hold urgent negotiations on the filling and operation of the Renaissance Dam, within four months.
Egypt is seeking an agreement that secures what it describes as its historical rights to the Nile waters, amid Ethiopia’s continuation of procedures to complete the filling and operation of the dam. Last September, the Ethiopian Prime Minister announced his country’s success in completing the fourth operation of filling the reservoir of the Renaissance Dam, a measure that Egypt rejected at the time.