Abdelatty made his remarks during a meeting on Sunday with his Sudanese counterpart, Hussein Awad Ali, on the sidelines of the high-level meetings of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

During the meeting, Abdelatty reviewed Egypt's efforts in various international mechanisms and events to support Sudan's unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and help resolve the crisis, according to a statement by the Egyptian foreign ministry.

He said Egypt works intensively to overcome the difficulties facing the movement of aid trucks through the crossings linking it to Sudan.

He stressed the importance of ensuring aid access to meet the needs of the Sudanese people, the statement noted.

Egypt’s top diplomat expressed his appreciation for the Sudanese Sovereignty Council's response to the requests of the parties to the Geneva talks to open the Adre crossing for humanitarian aid.

Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war since April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with more than 13,000 people killed since the Sudanese crisis began.

Over 500,000 Sudanese have crossed into Egypt since the onset of the war, according to data released by the Egyptian government.

Water Security
 

The meeting also discussed the issue of joint water security for the two Nile downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, and the related challenges facing the two countries.

The statement added that the two sides agreed on joint coordination steps to confront any unilateral moves that do not conform to the rules of international law, in a way that preserves the rights and interests of the two countries.

Egypt and Sudan have repeatedly raised concerns that the near-complete Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), built by Addis Ababa on the Blue Nile (one of the Nile River’s tributaries), will threaten their supply of water, especially during drought years.

For more than a decade of negotiations, Egypt and Sudan have sought a legally binding agreement governing the filling and operating of the GERD that ensures their water security and own dams' safety along with the interests of Ethiopia.

However, multiple tripartite talks have failed to secure an agreement due to Ethiopia’s intransigence.

Over the past three years, Addis Ababa unilaterally completed four phases of filing the disputed dam, operating two turbines despite the absence of an agreement with downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan.

It also began the fifth filling of the dam in July and unveiled plans to operate more turbines by December.