Eighty percent of the sticking points between Egypt and Ethiopia over Renaissance Dam have been solved, said Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Hossam Moghazy.
Moghazy pointed out that the negotiations will be completed in another country.
Ministers of Water Resources of the east Nile Basin countries Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia resumed the fourth round of negotiations on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis currently being held in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Ties between Cairo and Addis Ababa deteriorated after Ethiopia started constructing the Renaissance Dam in 2011 on the Blue Nile stream.
Egypt fears the dam will affect its historic 55.5-billion-cubic-meter share of the Nile water.
Ethiopia, however, insists that the Dam will not harm Egyptian interests and stresses its right to build the Dam for electricity generation and development purposes.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
