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Following Sudan’s claim of Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumz region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia urged Sudanese officials to refrain from issuing provocative statements about Ethiopia.
The Ministry today issued the following statement “because of the unwarranted, provocative and increasingly bellicose propaganda campaign by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan against Ethiopia.”
Below is the full statement
“Ethiopia has for long refrained from reacting to the numerous fabricated stories appearing in the press statements of Sudanese institutions and remarks by government officials taking into account the historic and fraternal relations between the brotherly peoples of Ethiopia and the Sudan,” it said.
Abu Dhabi: Sudan hinted it couldreconsider Ethiopia’s sovereignty over the Benishangul region, on which the Renaissance Dam is built, if it continued its approach of disavowing international agreements related to the waters of the Nile and the borders between the two countries.
This came after the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, pledged his country adheres to the second filling of the dam next July, assuring his citizens he will overcome the challenges facing his country.
In a statement, the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced statements by Ethiopian officials who stated that Sudan is working to bind their country to “colonial agreements”, referring to the 1902 border agreements and the 1959 Nile waters agreements.
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of discord for years. (AP) Khartoum, Cairo - Mohammed Amin Yassin and Walid Abdulrahman
Sudan said it might reconsider Ethiopia s sovereignty over the Benishangul region, where the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is built if Addis Ababa continues to disavow international agreements.
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry denounced statements by Ethiopian officials who rejected the “colonial agreements” - a reference to the 1902 and the 1959 border treaties.
The ministry stressed that the “irrational complacency in using these misleading claims and disavowing previous agreements also means compromising Ethiopia’s sovereignty over the Benishangul region, which was transferred from Sudan under some of these agreements.”
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Sudan said Saturday it has received an Ethiopian offer to share details on the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
“Ethiopia has offered to notify Sudan of the details of the second filling of the dam,” an official with the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Anadolu Agency.
The official said the Ethiopian offer came amid preparations by Addis Ababa to store 1.6 billion cubic meters of water as a test of the dam gates before the planned filling in July.