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KHARTOUM, July 14 (KUNA) -- Sudan on Tuesday delivered its final report to the African Union (AU) presidency regarding the negotiations held between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The report came after the end of the talks on July 3-13, under the auspices of the African Union.
The report includes Sudan's evaluation on this round of the talks, Sudan's ministry of irrigation and water resources said in a statement.
It pointed to a limited progress in the pending issues and the proposals mentioned in the report to solve these issues.
The report also covers a draft of a fair and balanced agreement that may be a base of an acceptable and comprehensive deal between the three countries, it noted.
Chairing the current session of the AU, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to call for a summit including heads of state and government of the three countries and other African chiefs to consider the next step to sign a comprehensive agreement that satisfies the aspirations of the three countries.
Sudan sticks to an effective mechanism to resolve any dispute happens in the future, as it considers that referring the expected conflict to heads of state to consider it in a political manner is an ineffective way since the dam has technical issues, including sharing data and environmental studies.
Egypt is afraid that the dam, which Ethiopia is constructing on the Blue Nile, will have impacts on the Egyptians' annual share of the Nile's water worth 55.5 billion cubic meters.
However, Ethiopia stressed that dam will benefit the field of energy generation.
It stressed that the dam will harm neither Sudan nor Egypt.
The GERD is located on the Blue Nile, 15 kilometers from Sudan's border, with a storage capacity of 74 billion cubic meters. It is expected to produce electricity of about 6000 megawatts. (end)
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