The Biden Administration’s unwarranted pressure on Ethiopia’s legitimate government emanates from the former’s tendency of supporting rebel groups and the intervention would destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the U.S. said.
Ambassador Fitsum Arega stated that the U.S. government and its Western allies’ support to the criminal faction would create favorable conditions for global terrorists that seek to further destabilize the turbulent region. The Biden Administration’s undue pressure on the Ethiopian government is against the principle of democracy and contradicts the former’s much-publicized commitment to fight international terrorism.
“The U.S. government is repeatedly requesting Ethiopia’s warring factions to stop the war and negotiate, which is wrong. There are no two warring parties and equating the terrorist group with the democratically…