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Sudanese Foreign Ministry: We are ready to negotiate with Ethiopia over the border

Post by Abe Abraham » 17 Feb 2022, 13:23

  • Sudanese Foreign Ministry: We are ready to negotiate with Ethiopia over the border




    On Thursday, Sudan's Arabs expressed their readiness to resume rounds of negotiations with Ethiopia on the borders on the basis of references and maps approved regionally and internationally.

    In a statement to Al-Ain News, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Khaled Farah, drew Ethiopia's "positive and friendly" proposal on the possibility of resuming negotiations on the common borders.

    Farah said that "Sudan is ready to resume the old negotiation rounds on the basis of the old known and agreed upon references."

    He stressed, "Khartoum will never accept any dispute claims over Sudan's recognized territories under bilateral agreements and approved regional and international maps."

    Earlier on Thursday, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry revealed intense recent discussions with Sudan on the files of the Renaissance Dam and the borders.

    The Ethiopian Ministry’s spokesman, Ambassador Dina Mufti, said during a press conference that the Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan, Yibaltal Emro, discussed with Sudanese officials a solution to the border issues between the two countries in a brotherly and peaceful spirit, including the opening of the “Al Matma Al Qalabat” crossing in the Amhara region on the border with the Sudanese state of Gedaref. As well as the issue of the Renaissance Dam.

    Mufti referred to the visit of the Vice-President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti” to Ethiopia late last month, explaining that the visit came within the framework of relations to resolve and discuss border issues between the two countries, the issue of the Renaissance Dam and resolving all issues in a peaceful manner and common understanding, as he put it. .

    Hamdok's visit was the first of its kind for a high-ranking Sudanese official since relations between the two countries were strained due to border disputes in the disputed Al-Fashqa area between them.

    The Renaissance Dam negotiations have been officially suspended since last April, after Egypt and Sudan (the downstream countries) and Ethiopia (the upstream countries) failed to reach understandings before the start of the second filling of the dam, which Ethiopia actually implemented last July.



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