Egypt and Sudan have rejected on Saturday a proposal by Ethiopia for a data exchange on its disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ahead of it's planned second filling of the dam in July. In an official statement, Egypt's irrigation ministry rejected the Ethiopian proposal, on forming a data exchange mechanism on the second filling of the dam, without a comprehensive deal. Sudan's Foreign Minister Mariam Al-Sadiq stated "any exchange of data without a legally binding deal is considered a [work] of charity from Ethiopia," that can be suspended at anytime. The statement accused Addis Ababa of submitting the proposal to alleviate "Sudanese, regional and international pressure" on the dam.