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Egyptian Irrigation Minister Hani Sweilem confirmed that Egypt opened the negotiating track based on what was agreed upon by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and its duration was 4 months and the period ended in vain.
He added that Egypt is “monitoring what is happening on the Ethiopian side and unilateral measures,” warning Addis Ababa against harming water security “because Egyptian state institutions will not allow this.”
He revealed that Egypt did not agree on terms related to filling the Renaissance Dam, accusing Ethiopia of involving other topics in the negotiations “in a desire to dominate the Blue Nile, which we will not allow.”
“We do not have information on the final design details on the GERD and we cannot estimate the safety of the dam, and this remains a legitimate concern,” the minister said.
He warned that the collapse of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam would wipe out Sudanese dams from the ground and affect 150 million citizens in Egypt and Sudan.
It is noteworthy that Ethiopia and Egypt accused each other of thwarting tripartite negotiations with Sudan on the Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia built on the Nile River.
This comes after the fourth round of talks ended in an impasse, as the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced on Tuesday the end of the fourth and final meeting of the Renaissance Dam negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
Egypt and Sudan see the project as a threat to their water supply and have repeatedly asked Addis Ababa to stop filling the dam until an agreement is reached on how it will work, but Ethiopia continues to fill it.