Sources participating in the meetings on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam said on Thursday that the water ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed at the end of the tripartite meetings on holding a new series of negotiations in Addis Ababa within a month.
The negotiations, according to sources, will resume discussions on the final technical offer submitted by the French consultancy firms BRL and Artelia as well as the legal and financial offers in order to agree on a date for contracting with the two firms then starting the technical studies of the dam.
The three countries reviewed during the meetings in Khartoum their visions on the technical offers by BRL and Artelia as well as the legal offer by the British legal office Corbett, which legally represents the three countries and will draft the final contract between them and the consultancy firms.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
