"The visit is important because it is the Ethiopian new premier's first visit to Cairo and it will reveal his vision on the dam issue," said Hani Raslan, head of Sudan and Nile Basin studies department at Cairo-based Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.
During the meeting in Addis Ababa, the three states agreed to form a scientific study group for consultation on the reservoir construction and filling and to hold a summit among the three countries' leaders every six months.
A similar ministerial meeting in April in the Sudanese capital Khartoum failed to reach an agreement over technical issues regarding the GERD, with Ethiopia and Sudan holding Egypt responsible for the talk failure and Egypt rejecting the blame and inviting for further talks in Cairo.
"The meetings of the ministerial committees are unable to make key breakthroughs without consensus at the level of political leaderships," Raslan told Xinhua.
"I believe the visit is exploratory and it is meant to ensure previous understandings and create new ones," the expert added, noting that Ethiopia has already completed 65 percent of the dam construction.
The GERD will be Africa's largest dam upon completion with a total volume of 74 billion cubic meters and a construction cost of about 4.7 billion U.S. dollars. It is expected to produce around 6,000 megawatts of electricity for Ethiopia.
Egypt's ties with Ethiopia have seen ups and downs since the latter started the dam project in April 2011 while Egypt was suffering turmoil following an uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.
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