KHARTOUM, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Sudan said Monday that it will participate in the summit of the Nile Basin countries scheduled for June 21-22 in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Sudanese Media Center reported.
"Sudan's Vice-President Hasabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman will lead Sudan's delegation to the summit, besides ministry of electricity and dams, foreign ministry and some technicians," Attal-Mannan Bakheet, Sudan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying.
He said the foreign ministry will prepare the files relating to the topics of the summit and the outcomes of previous meetings.
The coming Kampala summit is considered the first meeting for the head of states of the Nile Basin since the Entebbe Agreement was signed in 2010.
From May 2010 to early 2011, six of the Nile Basin's upstream countries, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Burundi, signed the Entebbe Agreement, a deal strongly protested by Sudan and Egypt.
The Entebbe Agreement stipulates that the cooperation among the Nile Basin countries should be based on equitable and reasonable benefit from the water of the Nile River.
The agreement grants the signatory countries the right to develop irrigation projects and dams without permission from Egypt.
Sudan and Egypt have repeatedly expressed concerns that such projects could affect their historical shares of the water in the Nile River, where Egypt was granted 55.5 billion cubic meters and Sudan 18.5 billion cubic meters.
