Mediators from the elder’s council say no major problem between leaders at the Federal government, and Tigray regional state
borkena
June 19, 2020
Ethiopian Mediation Council chairperson and his deputies had a press conference on Friday in the capital Addis Ababa.
Rumors that were circulating in social media regarding the Mediation Council’s stay is negative and incorrect, Professor Mesfin Araya and his deputies (Haile Gebreselassie and Pastor Daniel Gebreselassie) said – as reported by the state media Ethiopian News Agency.
Rumors on social media claimed that the mediators were mistreated – something that the Council has dismissed as wrong.
The stay in Mekelle was “good,” they said.
The council also disclosed that it has formally requested the Federal government of Ethiopia and Tigray regional state leaders to resolve the difference between the two levels of government.
A 43 members team of the National elder’s mediation council traveled to Mekelle, Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, on June 16 to approach TPLF leaders with the aim to resolve differences with the Federal government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s leadership.
The council said the mediation process was started much earlier, but it was interrupted by the Coronavirus situation in the country and the subsequent state of emergency the Federal government declared in April 2020.
“There is no problem with both parties. Their problem is that they could not sit down and discuss their differences,” chairpersons of the mediation council said.
Furthermore, they said that if they hold talks there is a possibility for them to work in agreement while maintaining their differences.
Meanwhile, the Tigray regional state has not reversed its decision to conduct an election in August 2020. National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) chairwomen, Birtukan Mideksa, said when she appeared on state TV sometime in May that only that Board has the constitutional power to organize elections.
Getachew Reda, TPLF spokesperson, remarked this week that there is no constitutional provision that prohibits the region from conducting elections and if the region conducts its own election, the relation with the Federal government will be like Somali warlords.
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The move by meditors, though innocent in its initiative, only serves TPLF as source of propaganda, as it helps TPLF have shown its flexed muscle. The issue can have a lasting solution when Togryan people decide to continue coecisting with the other people it used to for thousands of years. The people of Tigray and anyother people benefit and grow better, which we have seen it in last decades, when we live together. Let me ask one question. Really, is not the wealth created by Tigrean people elsewhere in Ethiopia greater than the wealth inTigray? Truel speaking by others too!
TPLF is suffering from obsessive compusive behavior. It aspires to see disintegreted Ethiopia, wants to grab everything disregarding others. It wants others to use them for safeguarding its interst. EVERYONE KNOWS. The Tigrian people havd choose between TPLF and their sisters and brotherd in elsewhere part of the country!