Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Nasreddin Allam said Thursday that negotiations with the Nile Basin countries would resume in late June in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, after an Egypt meeting failed to achieve a unanimous agreement on a redistribution of the river waters. "The talks will resume in Ethiopia meeting to bridge the gap and settle the differences," Allam said Thursday. The seven African nations called the source nations ��" because their rivers flow into and make up the Blue Nile and the White Nile, which unite in Sudan's capital Khartoum ��" will sign the agreement on May 14, without Egypt and Sudan. It was unclear what effect, if any, the signing would have on actual water exploitation. "The declaration was not a final status. It was just an announcement of the current stance of these nations," Allam stated. In addition to Egypt, the Nile Basin group includes Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Eritrea has only observer status within the group. President Hosni Mubarak and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir urged the Nile Basin countries on Wednesday to join a joint commission with the aim of boosting co-operation between its nations. Reda Bebres, a spokesman for Egypt's delegation in the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting on Tuesday, said the move to sign the deal was a "regrettable unilateral decision" by the other Nile Basin nations. Egypt's claim to Nile water is based on a 1929 agreement between Egypt and Great Britain on behalf of Britain's colonies, which gave Egypt the right to most of the more than 100 billion cubic meters of water annually reaching the downstream countries.