“There is no need to go around other countries to accuse us when it is possible to come to us in Addis Abeba. “Ethiopia doesn’t want the disintegration of Somalia; it would not have sacrificed its children” if it wanted that. This is a national interest issue.” Pm Abiy AhmedSticking to his initial argument on gaining direct access to the sea, Abiy repeated the Ethiopian government’s request is “access to the sea. “But Ethiopia has a question, it is difficult to be landlocked with an economy of this size. This is a national interest issue.” Ethiopia wants to “reconcile this without lives lost; without insulting each other and without wasting money traveling to [other] countries.

Source: Ethiopian News July 04, 2024 11:38 UTC