Sudan rejects Ethiopian de facto policy on Renaissance Dam

During the interaction of the Renaissance Dam crisis, and the attempt of the international community to contain it and work to treat it through negotiations, the United States of America expressed its deep concern following the Ethiopian second filling to the dam, and in this same context the US Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo sent a message to Ethiopia stressing the need to resolve the crisis.

The embassy has indicated the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, phone call with President Felix Tshisekedi, who currently is the chairman of the African Union, and Blinken during the phone call asserted the US’s grave concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Ethiopian Tigray region.

The US Secretary of State also stressed the African Union important role in reducing intensity of the conflict and its mediation in the Ethiopian dam crisis, while the two leaders expressed commitment to work together so that the Democratic Republic of Congo can harness its potential towards continuing a positive track in the dam crisis.

Meanwhile, the Sudanese authorities had announced its rejection to Ethiopia’s unilateral procedures and the policy of imposing a fait accompli, in response to the Ethiopian authorities’ announcement, two days before the completion of the second filling.

The Sudan’s government affirmed in a statement, last Tuesday, that the continuing negotiations, in good faith, is the best alternative to the Ethiopian approach, which will only harm the distinguished historical relations between the two brotherly countries and peoples, to reach a binding and comprehensive legal agreement that preserves the interests of all parties and addresses their concerns, particularly the Safe operation for the Rosseires Dam.

The statement stressed its belief that it is not too late, and that reaching the desired agreement is very necessary, possible and available, if the political will is available.

In the same context, Egyptian media noted to the failure of the second filling of the EGRD according to the Ethiopian plans, while the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abi Ahmed, announced in his account on “Twitter” the completion of the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, stressing that this procedure will not harm the downstream countries, in reference to Egypt and Sudan.

Abi Ahmed indicated in his twit that his country carried out the second filling of the Renaissance Dam on the twentieth of this month, cautiously during the rainy season and in a beneficial way, noting that this filling would not harm the downstream countries.

However, Sudan, which has been expressing its firm position on a clear demand that the matter is not limited to the technical aspects, which the Ethiopian officials repeated in addressing the dam’s issue, but to the agreement package be placed in a legal framework and a stipulated commitment, binding to all the three parties, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia, so that the issue of the dam is dealt with according to an evidence from a solid ground of the recognized charters in this regard.