Ethiopia Affirms Readiness for Dialogue With Eritrea
BY TESFA-ALEM TEKLE, 30 APRIL 2013 Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian government on Monday has reiterated its readiness to hold peace talks with Eritrea to resolve their decades-long border dispute During his meeting with the United Nations
BY TESFA-ALEM TEKLE, 30 APRIL 2013
Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian government on Monday has reiterated its readiness to hold peace talks with Eritrea to resolve their decades-long border dispute
During his meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York, the Ethiopian Minister of foreign Affairs Tedros Adhanom accused the Eritrean government of refusing to engage in peace talks.
Adhanom said his country is ready to sit down for direct negotiations with Eritrea without any preconditions regarding to level, time or venue.
But the Ethiopian top diplomat stressed “the belligerent party opposed to these talks has always been the Eritrean side”.
According to the ministry of foreign Affairs, Tedros expressed solidarity with the people of Eritrea whom he said are continuously suffering due the regime’s “brutality and obstinacy to peace”.
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a border war in 1998-2000 that has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
The two East African adversaries remain at loggerheads since the disputed key town of Badme had been awarded to Eritrea by an international border commission.
Ethiopia’s current leader Hailemariam Desalegn, who assumed power shortly after longtime ruler Meles Zenawi died in August said last year that he was willing to hold face-to-face talks with Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, even if he had to travel to the Asmara.
However, the Eritrean government has yet to respond to the offer.
Asmara has in the past said that Ethiopia should first withdraw its troops from the flashpoint border town of Badme before resuming to peace talks.
Source: ST
ida May 1, 2013
Hagerawi, all arrogance is doing for us is sending our people to sinai. .
ida May 1, 2013
We need a good diplomat as a president. I am running. Vote for me!!!!!!
josef May 1, 2013
Negotiation with Shifta of asmara? Kkkkkkkk
Tedd May 1, 2013
Negotiation (dialogue) for what ? For that they accept then refused deccision bandits of legal deccision even now the solution is @ their hand respect the deccision then dialogue
Zola May 1, 2013
Tedd, it seems you don’t yet understand politics, It dictates that when time is in your side, use it! Relatively, Ethiopia is in a better position under the current state of affairs. You therefore don’t expect them to forgo anything let alone Badme. Ethiopia also know that Isayas can not afford to make peace as that would lead massive national questions. The last one thing you should, whatever bitter it may be, accept is the whole mess in Eritrea principally arises from within..from your own people. Remember that Ethiopia is another country with its national interests.
A.A Yassin May 1, 2013
“You therefore don’t expect them to forgo anything let alone Badme.”
Are you Ethiopian? How do you know what they are thinking?
Andebrhan Ekube May 1, 2013
Hagerawi , you don’t make a sence .
Can you go and fight ? Or you are fighting through you mouth like your boss Issayas ?
Tedd May 1, 2013
Negotiation (dialogue) for what ? For that they accept then refused deccision bandits of legal deccision even now the solution is @ their hand respect the deccision then dialogue
Haben May 1, 2013
Issu gena 20 yrs alewo nihzbi eritra kiqegbo
Obahara May 1, 2013
Hello,
Here is some earlier penned down relevant opinion piece to what is being addressed here:
It was said that the most dangerous thing is an idea whose time has come or something to that effect! That goes without saying to the people of ideas and intelligence, real stuff, and not much can be said about grown ups who cannot understand that the so called intellectual has to turn his or her intellectual ideas into intelligence. One can know more or less but his or her knowledge remains at the level of a bookworm who parrots what he considers big ideas like a school teacher without understanding. The so called intellectual may know something but has no understanding of what he knows for the simple reason that understanding can only come through living experience of what is known and it is individual!
Now, how is that this Ethio-Unionist so called Eritrean intellectual to understand Eritreans and what they are really made up of without being part of their living experience as a people tying to establish their own nation against world conspiracy! What was YG’s Eritrean experience starting from his home and ultimately to the Eritrean citizenship that he is miserably trying to undermine? Does he understand that Eritreans are legally, morally, and historically justified to become an independent country and have paid a hefty price to make it a reality? If one has some logical intellect that is impartial, then one has to treat all things equally according to the rules established by the concerned smaller and greater actors. Eritreans have done that for the outside world and will do it for themselves by removing the plague that they have helped create, namely, the plague that is now being called the “PFDJ”. If Eritreans could stand up to Ethiopia and her alternating Super-Power-Patrons by the force of arms and liberate their country with world acclaim, they can also stand up to end the disease that is eating them from inside out!
Why should Eritreans fight Ethiopians when they have “The Idea Whose Time Has Come On Their Side!” There is nothing left between Eritrea and Ethiopia that should lead to yet another round of bestial and all-out border war for the simple reason that the court of international law have adjudicated the final and binding Ero-Ethiopian border demarcation verdict! That being out of the way, Eritreans have to focus their time, energy, and material to unseat the PFDJ from power and strive to establish their own constitutional, institutional, and democratic governance in their country! Nothing will change until those who violate the rule of national and international law are made to stop their rule of the jungle in both Eritrea and Ethiopia proper. Until then, people are allowed to play-house and entertain themselves like good old
children sometimes do:-)
Peace!
ida May 2, 2013
Obahara, I agree with you that change will come to Eritrea. The problem with dictators is, like in Syria, they will do anything to stay in power. Power corrupts people. It is like a drug. We are strong, we can do anything if we put our mind to it.
Obahara May 2, 2013
Kudos to that, sister Ida!
Samuel May 1, 2013
Both PPL deserve peace and harmony,the dictator of Eritrean leader always brings the border dispute,to prolong his dictatorial regime.both ppl suffer enough and they deserve to build a bridge between them .Eritrea is sovereign country and a company.the current leader fires and hires emplooyee,let the Eritrean ppl decide their destiny.
Wedi Mana May 1, 2013
The same old B.S., first Ethiopia need to accept the International Court Ruling withdraw they army from the disputed area then physically demarcate the border then you can dialog. Dialog was tried before the war in 1997 when the Eritrean police in Adi Murug were destroyed & kicked out, the Bada incidence and Dialog didn’t work and now they wanted to pull us to back to square zero…. BS BS BS. The entire world.
abe May 2, 2013
After the Adi Murug incident on may 1998 Eritrean soldiers with artillery and tanks destroyed and kicked out Et police and militia.Do you know, Zelambesa was converted into ashes!! that’s inhuman.
sammy mike May 1, 2013
haben you are shormuta ugly condaf do you understand bich?
Haben May 2, 2013
Believe me with lame opposition like you PFDJ will leave much longer than we hope.
Haben May 2, 2013
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