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[qute]Addis Ababa, March 21 (WIC) – Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani held bilateral talks on 23 February 2012 on the sideline of the London Conference on Somalia.
During the meeting, the two prime ministers reviewed the current state of relations between the two countries in all its aspects, a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated.
The two premiers expressed their desire to promote and strengthen friendly relations and all around mutual cooperation between the two countries.
At the conclusion of the talks, they agreed that Ethiopia will restore diplomatic relations and open and embassy in Doha, and that the State of Qatar will open a Qatari embassy in Addis Ababa.
...... e was also involved in similar activities before the beginning of the Arab Spring. He dispatched his diplomats to mediate between the Sudanese government and the rebels in Darfur, between Eritrea and Ethiopia, and between the United States and the Afghan Taliban. He wasn't always as successful as in 2008, when he prevented the renewed outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. But for the emir and his country, every diplomatic success represents a little more recognition of their increasingly important role as negotiators.
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Thank you Addis Meraf ለበሳል አቀራረብህ !
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A single, limited attack on terrorist training camps in Eritrea
March 24th, 2012
On Thursday March 15th, as we noted in A Week in the Horn last week, units of the Ethiopian Defense Forces attacked three military targets inside Eritrea. These were camps where the Eritrean government had been training and arming terrorist and subversive groups, including the one which recently attacked, killed and abducted European tourists in the Afar Regional State. The operation was a limited military measure, a carefully calculated and proportional response to the recent attack against innocent tourists in the Afar region and to continued destabilizing activities being carried out by Eritrea.
This week, the Minister of State in the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Berhane Gebrechristos has been briefing the representatives of the international community on last week’ s operation, European and American ambassadors on Wednesday, African and Asian representatives on Thursday and Friday. Ambassador Berhane pointed out that Ethiopia has been the target of Eritrean incursions and destabilizing activities in the region for a long time. Eritrea’ s support for terrorist groups is, of course, public knowledge, and the UN Monitoring Group’ s findings have clearly showed the extent of Eritrea’ s involvement in efforts to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa. Ethiopia, together with IGAD member countries and the AU, has consistently called on the international community to take action against Eritrea. They supported sanctions against Eritrea in the hope that these would encourage Eritrea to mend its ways. The imposition of sanctions has certainly had some impact, but it has still failed to persuade the Eritrean government to stop its activities completely as the killing of the tourists in January demonstrated.
The attack on Thursday last week was on three military camps at Gimbi, Galahbe and Ramid where the Eritrean government has been training terrorist and subversive groups. Ethiopia was fully aware of the existence of these camps and of the fact that the regime in Asmara was amassing hundreds of terrorists to launch further attacks on civilian targets in Ethiopia. The camps are run by Eritrean regular army units who also carry out the training operations. This has been going on for a long time, and amounts to all intents and purposes to an act of war. Indeed, Ethiopia has in the past unequivocally warned the Eritrean Government that it will take proportional measures in self-defense if necessary.
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In response to questions, Ambassador Berhane said it was quite clear from the letters sent by Ethiopia to both the UN and the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission that Ethiopia had accepted the Boundary Commission's decision unconditionally, and that it was ready to have dialogue on the implementation of the decision based on international practice. This, the Eritrean regime had persistently refused to do. Many partners had tried to mediate. None would suggest Ethiopia had refused to cooperate or negotiate at any point. It was Eritrea which had consistently refused to do so, refusing to accept the appointment of negotiators or denying their entry into Eritrea.
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