Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:41:10 -0600
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54327
March 19, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
will travel to Addis Ababa on Monday for talks with Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a
newspaper reported today.
*FILE - Egyptian president Abdel **Fattah* *el-Sisi** (R) with Ethiopian
Prime Minister **Hailemariam* *Desalegn** (L) meeting in Cairo (Egypt
Presidency handout photo)*
The Cairo-based al-Masry al-Youm newspaper said that el-Sisi aims to
resolve disagreements over GERD and to seek amendments to a framework
agreement that was supposed to be signed in Khartoum on the same day.
Among the changes proposed are inclusion of clauses that guarantee Egypt’s
historical rights in the Nile waters and seeking a reduction the dam’s
storage capacity.
It recalled that the Egyptian leader called for revising the accord during
his meeting this week with his ministers of foreign affairs, irrigation and
water resources, international cooperation as well as head of intelligence.
Ibrahim I. Suliman.
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