Ethiopia: Prime Minister discusses possible negotiations with the TPLF
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa, October 4, 2021 (illustration image).
AFP - AMANUEL SILESHI
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In Ethiopia, the prime minister addressed the lower house of parliament on Tuesday and Wednesday.
An exercise in public justification of what he presents as a policy of appeasing society, after nearly sixteen months of war against the Tigray rebellion.
During his speech, he mentioned possible negotiations with the TPLF in the future.
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Two days in front of the deputies, two days to explain the current position of the Ethiopian government,
in a new and very changing context
.
It was necessary for Abiy Ahmed to make known his current point of view on the country.
If, on the first day, he welcomed the recovery of the economy after the ebb of the fighting, and announced new privatizations, the second day was an opportunity to set the record straight on the prospects for peace .
Regarding, for example, negotiating with his enemy, the TPLF, he explained that this was not the case at the moment, but that “
this did not exclude the possibility of negotiating
”.
“
Bringing Lasting Peace
”
Faced with incomprehension even in his own camp of the recent release of political prisoners, he explained that it had been motivated by the desire to "
bring a lasting peace, taking into account the general situation of the prisoners, and to to consolidate the
military victory » won, according to him, over the Tigrayans.
Abiy Ahmed finally asked that the “
national dialogue
”, which he set up this week, widely criticized in the Ethiopian political class, be “
taken seriously
”.
This Wednesday morning, he also met his Prosperity Party, to try to appease the friction on all these issues.
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