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PM Abiy Ahmed received AU Special Envoy, explained openness for dialogue only with parties operating legally in Tigray region

 

PM Abiy Ahmed meets AU Special Envoy (Picture: Office of the Prime Minister)

Addis Ababa, November 27, 2020 – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received at his office this morning a delegation of AU Special Envoy. He expressed his appreciation for the Special Envoys for their visit to Ethiopia, “who in their elderly concern are hopeful for a prosperous and stable Ethiopia”. Nevertheless, he informed the envoy his constitutionally mandated responsibility to enforce the rule of law in Tigray and across Ethiopia.

During the discussions, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed briefed the Special Envoys on the background to Ethiopia's rule of law operations currently underway in the Tigray region. The Prime Minister discussed how the federal government took with patience for more than two years TPLF’s provocations and destabilization agenda.

The Prime Minister went through the many attempts the federal government took to engage peacefully until the premeditated attack on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) took place. This attack, he explained to the envoy, constituted a high treason under the Criminal Code of Ethiopia. PM Abiy Ahmed said this provocation on then ENDF was the final straw which forced the federal government to act in protection of the constitutional order of the country.

PM Abiy Ahmed meets AU Special Envoy (Picture: Office of the Prime Minister)
 

He explained to the envoy the federal government's commitment to the protection and security of civilians during the rule of law operations which was demonstrated in the ENDF's avoidance to engage in combat within cities and densely populated areas, by weathering rough terrain instead.

He ensured proper response to humanitarian needs of citizens in the region by identifying a humanitarian assistance route for the provision of necessary relief materials to citizens in the region coordinated through the Ministry of Peace in collaboration with UN agencies.

He expressed federal government’s readiness of the federal government to receive, rehabilitate and resettle citizens that have fled, by setting up four camps established to rehabilitate returnees before resettling them back into their original locales. He also ensured provision of government services in towns and cities under Federal command.

The federal government is also "committed to rebuild public infrastructure destroyed by TPLF forces, including communication facilities", according to the Prime Minister.

Finally, he expressed the federal government’s determination to apprehend and bring to justice the TPLF clique and their operatives who also perpetrated the grave crimes against humanity in Maikadra.

The AU Special Envoy was comprised of former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano, and former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe - the designated Special Envoys of H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and Chairperson of the African Union.

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