EU and US monitoring implementation of peace in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The EU International Coverage Chief stated on Tuesday that the EU and the US have been monitoring the implementation of the peace settlement in Ethiopia and can solely step by step restore their relations with Addis Ababa.

“To begin with, in Ethiopia, this was a serious disaster and now, thankfully, issues begin to transfer towards fixing it. That is one of many uncommon excellent news that we have now on the earth. And to maintain the present progress, the EU and the US should proceed working hand in hand”. (…) “The message to each the federal government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayans is to make them perceive that we’re watching the settling of the battle and can solely normalize our relation in a gradual approach, step-by-step”, stated Josep Borrell, EU International Coverage Chief.

A peace settlement signed on 2 November 2022 in Pretoria ended two years of brutal battle within the northern Ethiopian area of Tigray between federal authorities forces and rebels of the Tigray Individuals’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF).

The battle has claimed some 500,000 lives in line with the United States.