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Tigray rebels say ready to name team for
peace talks with Ethiopian gov’t
July 17, 2022 (NAIROBI) – The
rebel-led government in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region says it
is ready to name a negotiator team for peace talks with the
government.
“The
Government of Tigray will name a team of negotiators taking all the
necessary government procedures of decision making,”
Professor Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Tigray External
Affairs Office representative told the Sudan Tribune.
In a related
development, a seven-member peace committee tasked by Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed to lead peace talks with Tigray People’s
Liberation Front (TPLF), has announced the start of duty.
The team headed by
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen, “has
started work” to facilitate the peace talks, said Redwan Hussein,
Abiy’s national security adviser on Twitter after Tuesday’s
meeting.
He said the
committee has deliberated and decided on its internal workings on a
range of actions and a code of conduct for the planned peace
talks.
“Sub-committees
have also been formed and responsibilities have been divided within
this structure,” said Hussein who also is a member of the
government’s negotiating team.
He didn’t give
further details including on whether the government will hold
face-to-face talks with Tigray leaders.
Disputes on
Mediation team
Addis Ababa wants
the peace process to be held under the leadership of the African
Union.
The TPLF, however,
doubts the neutrality of the continental bloc and insists any talks
be held under the auspices of Kenyan President Uhuru
Kenyatta.
TPLF leaders voiced
concerns about the “proximity” of the AU’s envoy, former Nigerian
President Olusegun Obasanjo, to Abiy.
“The silence of the
African Union over the war and the atrocities perpetrated by the
forces ranged against us was the betrayal of the foundational
principles of the African Union,” the Tigrayan rebels recently said
in a statement.
“We have
consistently condemned the failure of the African Union chairperson
and his High Representative to take a consistent position with the
solemn obligation under the Constitutive Act of the Union,” further
stressed the armed group.
These unresolved
differences between the two warring parties has delayed the talks
which were initially planned to commence by the end of last
month.
It still remains
unclear when and where the talks would be held but a Tigray
government official confirmed to Sudan Tribune that
discussions are underway to finalize the pre-dialogue pending
issues.
“JUMPING THE
GUN”
Kindeya further
went on to saying that “The regime in Addis Ababa is jumping the
gun”. He further added that Addis Ababa sends mixed signals and
conflicting messages about peace and war.
“You would hear
about peace from the PM, and at the same time labeling/blaming TPLF
on every problem in the country including Sudan- Ethiopia recent
conflict from the Ministrty of foreign affairs and army preparing
for war from the Chief Staff, not to mention the daily war drum
from the Amhara Authorities,” Kindeya said.
“If you monitor
their medias, you would see the conflicting signals” he said adding
“If they are serious about peace, they should come clean,” he
added.
The African Union
special envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, has
recently been in several meetings with TPLF and government leaders
in a bid to bring both sides to a negotiating table.
Fighting has
relatively slowed in northern Ethiopia since a humanitarian truce
was declared at the end of March.
“Defacto
blockade”
The northern region
of Tigray remains in what the UN says is under defacto
blockade preventing life-saving medicine and
other emergency humanitarian assistance from reaching the
war-affected population who are in famine-like conditions,
according to huamnaitarian agencies.
Lack of cash, fuel
and other essential services is also worsening the humanitarian
crisis in the aid dependent, aid workers say.
last month for the
first time, the prime minister raised the prospect of possible
peace talks with the TPLF in a bid to end the deadly conflict that
broke out in northern Ethiopia in November 2020.
On June 14, Abiy
Ahmed signaled the possibility that his government would have talks
with TPLF, a party which dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly
three decades.
Later on, the
Ethiopian government named seven negotiators chaired by Deputy
Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen to negotiate with the Tigray rebels
in a bid to end the 18-month-old bloody conflict in the country’s
north.
Aside from Demeke
and Redwan, the committee comprises Justice Minister Gedion
Timotheos; National Intelligence and Security
Service (NISS) director general Temesgen Tiruneh;
military intelligence chief General Berhanu
Bekele; Prosperity Party official Hassan
Abdulkadir; and the deputy president of the
Amhara region which neighbors Tigray, Getachew Jember.
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