KHARTOUM, April 4, 2018 - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel Aaty and Acting Director of the Egyptian Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel arrived in Khartoum on Wednesday night to take part in the nine-way meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. * Click to open image! Click to open image! * Click to open image! Click to open image! * View the embedded image gallery online at: http://www.egyptiangazette.net.eg/index.php/component/k2/item/1689#sigProIdf5fa17fa12 The Egyptian delegation was received at Khartoum International Airport by Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour and Sudanese Minister of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity Moataz Mousa, Sudan's intelligence chief Salah Gosh and Egyptian Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout as well as some embassy staff members. The meeting comes as a follow-up on an agreement reached during the summit talks between Egyptian, Sudanese and Ethiopian leaders on the sidelines of the African summit in Addis Ababa last January. * Click to open image! Click to open image! * Click to open image! Click to open image! * View the embedded image gallery online at: http://www.egyptiangazette.net.eg/index.php/component/k2/item/1689#sigProId2ef3d12869 During the January African Summit, the three countries agreed on uprooting all obstacles facing negotiations of the tripartite technical committee over preparing the studies related to the effects of the dam on both Egypt and Sudan. The studies are instrumental for ensuing that there will be no adverse effects of the dam on Egypt and Sudan. Through this meeting, Egypt seeks to assert what has been agreed upon between the leaders of the three countries regarding the importance of being committed to implementing the 2015 Declaration of Principles agreement.
