Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of taking steps to support the members of the Nile Basin Initiative in establishing negotiations to enable accession by Egypt and Sudan to the Cooperative Framework Agreement as part of a process to establish sustainable, cooperative and fair protocols for the management of the Nile’s water among all riparian states.

The UK supports the principles of transboundary water management, however it is a matter for the Nile River Riparian States to agree on fair and equitable use of Nile Waters.