Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will sign a document on March 23 on an Ethiopian dam being built on the Nile, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti said Saturday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn have accepted an invitation from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to sign the document in Khartoum, he added upon arrival from Cairo.
Bashir had attended a major investment conference in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to revive Egypt's economy.
No information is yet available about the terms of the agreement.
Karti had earlier said that it was an agreement on the principles of cooperation in the Nile Basin and the dam, now being constructed by Ethiopia.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, meanwhile, had said the document would open the door for more cooperation between the three states at the political and technical levels.
The Ethiopian Dam has been at the center of a diplomatic row between Egypt and Ethiopia for months now.
While Ethiopia views the multi-billion-dollar dam as a prerequisite for economic development, Egypt fears that it will cause a marked reduction in water revenues from the Nile.
A committee containing ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan has convened several times in Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss the effects of the construction of the dam on riparian countries Egypt and Sudan.
By Amr Imam
Anadolu Agency
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