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Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Dr Mariam El Sadig El Mahdi, has said that Sudan is looking forward to reaching a legally binding agreement over filling and operation before the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The dam, Ethiopia’s intention to fill it, and the ramifications to Sudan and Egypt downstream, has been a the subject of sharp and often fruitless negotiations, that are now progressing due to international efforts at mediation.
April 20 - 2021 KHARTOUM
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (File photo: www.pietrangeli.com)
The Sudanese transitional government has called on the UN Security Council to intervene to help break the current negotiations deadlock between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), after the latest round of talks in Kinshasa earlier this month produced little progress.
A letter addressed to Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam, who holds the presidency of the UK Security Council for April 2021, signed by Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Maryam El Sadig El Mahdi Foreign Minister, warns that the “the latest developments related to the GERD negotiations… may have serious negative impact on the situation in Sudan, the neighbouring countries, and would cast a negative shadow over the peace and security of the region as a whole”.